Home Base - Poems On Life As A Regular Force Cadet 1964-1966 - Keith Westwater

"Keith's stepmother 'Maw' gives him an ultimatum - at fifteen he either leaves school to work or joins the army. So, Keith departs Auckland and reports to the Waiouru military camp, enlisting as a regular force cadet. Home Base is a snapshot of Keith Westwater's boy-soldier life in the New Zealand Army during the 1960s. From a motherless and peripatetic childhood in No One Home, the sequel Home Base is where Keith finally finds a place to call home: underneath Mount Ruapehu's shadow and amongst his fellow cadets. From spit-polished 'brightly black' boots to doing 'the marchie marchie', Home Base is a candid and often humorous look at the lives of Regular Force Cadets. It's also a memoir of Keith's adolescence depicted through handwritten diary entries, photographs, maps and poems."--Publisher's information. Softcover Illustrated Printed - 2021 Pages -182 ISBN - 9781988595467 Overall condition - very good