Deze serie volgt de levens van jonge Britse soldaten tijdens hun dienst in Malakka in de jaren '40 en '50. De verhalen vangen een mix van militaire levensstijl, coming-of-age ervaringen en het najagen van verbinding en plezier te midden van een conflict. Lezers kunnen een rauw maar humoristisch perspectief verwachten op jeugd, liefde en overleven in een uitdagende omgeving.
But it was safe...'One way or another the Communist guerrilla war in Malaya kept a whole British army occupied from 1948 until 1952.A young virgin like Brigg had to grab his fun while and where he could - in the Liberty Club, in Juicy Lucy's flat or up in Phillipa's room - in one frantic attempt at living before he died or got demobbed...
Bursting with life and bawdy humour, National Serviceman Brigg is now a Regular Army sergeant defending the Empire in the beds and bars of Hong Kong. Peace-time diversions include sensual fireworks with a pair of delicious Chinese twins and a tender, erotic affair with the lonely wife of an American serviceman.
Many of the surviving characters from The Virgin Soldiers live again in these pages: dogged Tasker, the odious Sergeant Wellbeloved, the vulnerable Colonel Bromley Pickering and the comically touching Juicy Lucy. the endearing Welshman, Morris Morris - strong as a horse but bafflingly buxom;