Francis Edgar Stanley Windrush has to disrupt his university instruction when he is name up towards the end of the war. He rapidly prove himself not to be military officer stuff, but befriend crafty buck private Percival Cox who know precisely how all the scams work in the baffled universe of the British regular army. And Francis Edgar Stanley’s brigadier War business office uncle look to be up to something more than than a bit fly-by-night too - and they are both shortly work for him, behind the enemy line.