Patrick Ryan How I Won the War: Lieutenant Ernest Goodbody as Told to Patrick Ryan. Ballantine Books, 1967. First printing. 254 pages. Paperback, measuring approximately 4.25" x 7.25", exhibits very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings.

"Ex-infantryman and reconnaissance officer, author and humorist Patrick Ryan is perhaps best remembered for this acerbically comic novel - first published in 1963 and quickly adapted into a 1967 feature film by Richard Lester, starring Michael Crawford and John Lennon. It is a satirical 'memoir' of the misadventures of the haphazard and notably naive Lieutenant Ernest Goodbody and his fellow fighting men of Twelve Platoon - Sergeant Transom, Corporals Hink, Globe and Dooley, Private Drogue et al - as they stumble ill-preparedly into the theatres of World War Two."