Selections from fourteen volumes of diaries, with illustrations by Donald Friend, bear witness to his deep frustration with the boredom of Brisbane camp life – 'a stupid khaki hell' – where he was a gunner during the war years.
The book is generously illustrated with Friend's character drawings in line, pen and pencil.
Tucked inside this book is a small nugget – an inserted newspaper clipping from the Melbourne 'Age' in 1946 where a critic bemoans, 'Excellent art book, almost ruined by vapid prose scribblings'.
