From the Potteries to Peshawar and beyond; a young man facing a dull life in industry in the 1930s opts for the military and so enters into an unimagined world of mountains, extreme weather and hostile tribes in the North West Frontier Province of India. Later would come WW2. This is a glimpse into a near-forgotten world as well as the more famous action of the Fall of France. Told with wry humour and critical observations. An interesting read and social document.