If you've ever served in the British Army...Did anyone really try and swim the channel in a Stalwart?Whatever happened to Wolfgang of Soltau?Is it possible to fall asleep on a BFT?What's the best course of action when you shit yourself on parade?Why did Hughie Green of Opportunity Knocks invade East Germany?All these questions and more answered inside!If you've never served in the British Army...Here is a collection of anecdotes from the people who spent fifty years defending freedom and democracy against the Eastern Bloc. It was a mad time, with mad people and some mad experiences. And if it had ever gone from a cold war to a hot one the strategists tell us the result would have been MAD. (Mutually Assured Destruction). By the way, don't buy this book if you are easily offended.