Doing Time

This is the story of a young man seeking to adapt himself, after a chaotic adolescence, to a rigid military discipline that he plainly finds both idiotic and maddening. But his time in the RAF is not without adventure, especially when he gets caught up in the Berlin Airlift. Told in a deceptively simple style, the story combines self-deprecating humour with more than a tinge of irony. Patrick Gibson is the author of Childhood Lost, an autobiographical account of growing up amid the horrors of the war in the Far East.