In Robert A. Heinlein's controversial Hugo Award-winning bestseller, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe--and into battle against mankind's most alarming enemy ... Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up--and definitely not...
With Earth embroiled in a vast interplanetary war with the Bugs, a young recruit in the Federal Reserves relates his experiences training in boot camp and as a junior officer in the Terran Mobile Infantry.