In this moving memoir of one man's war and it's consequences, Dennis Alder recalls the nine years (from boy of fifteen to man of twenty-four) he spent with the British Army Signal Corps - from enlistment and training to the front line and service in West Africa.With a disarming honesty and charming simplicity, Alder recounts his experiences without hyperbole creating a frank and authentic record of one of the most traumatic periods in world history; the Second World War.