In the Second World War Sergeant Bill Johnstone during his tour of duty in the desert found the time to relieve the tensions of day to day survival by writing short humorous sketches of the scene as he saw it at that time. These sketches were posted back to Cape Town and published in The Cape Argus between March 1942 and January 1943.

Now happily retired in the delightful Garden Route town of George Cape Province Sergeant Bill Johnstone has dedicated this book to those comrades who fought and fell beside him and to those who survived…’