Misadventures with Coco-Oscar: A Conscript's Role in the Malayan Emergency

How did a British teenager find himself involved in an undeclared and little-known war on the other side of the world? He accepted an offer he couldn't refuse: donating two years of his life defending the Queen's dominions, in his case, Malaya. It was called National Service. Based on his 1959 'Demob Diary' and the 62 letters he wrote home over 16 months, Misadventures with Coco-Oscar portrays life in a dysfunctional infantry battalion on active service seen through the irreverent eyes of a...