This has been my reading all weekend. It is a very detailed description of the author's growing up poor in Australia, his dead beat father, and the sometime adventures he and his siblings got up too. It has many detailed chapters of his sexual exploits as a young teen, then when he joined the Australian Army, with his mates out at night in Brisbane and Sydney. Some of this was almost lascivious, I certainly learnt things I did not know! Eventually he joins the army and is sent to fight in Vietnam. While I am only half way through this very long but interesting book I wanted to give readers of this blog the opportunity to download a copy too. The book continues with his adventures in Vietnam, his impressions of the war and his service, and the impact on his psyche when he returned home. The opening chapters are set in a mental hospital where he is recovering from the impact of PTSD. It is riveting reading, the chapters are short, and the story rolls along like a good Australian yarn. Well worth purchasing.