Description
The book is about an old man who joins the army and is sent to fight in an interstellar war. He is unaware of the true conflict involved.
Enlisting in the army on his seventy-fifth birthday, John Perry joins an interstellar war between Earth and alien enemies who would stake claims on the few existing inhabitable planets, unaware that the conflict involves much more than he understands. A first novel. By the author of The Rough Guide to the Universe. Reprint.