The Real Insider's Guide to Military Basic Training: A Recruit's Guide of Advice and Hints to Make It Through Boot Camp

by Peter Thompson

This book is a guide for new recruits to help them through basic training. The guide contains extremely helpful hints and advice found in no other book of its type. A person interested in any branch of the service can utilize the book, although Army and Marine recruits will find it particularly useful. The information is free from biased interests and is "written for a new recruit by a recruit". The book is very easy to read, has important chapter summaries, and specific lists of what to do and not to do during basic training. Any person enlisting, or just thinking about enlisting, will find the information worth its weight in gold.

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Peter Thompson is Sydney Mayer Lecturer in Early American History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St. Cross College.