What Now, Lieutenant

BESOTTED by the women who inflame, entice but usually elude or ignore them, What Now, Lieutenant tracks three men from the Second World War into the present century.

Dr. Elder is a well-intentioned classicist/polytheist, who, having been flung into the Battle of the Bulge, emerges physically intact and embarks on a quest for a congenial wife and a stress-free life.

Freddy (he'd much prefer "Fred"), Dr. Elder's unprepossessing son, aches to excel and live up to his mistaken image of his father...