
' The historians can't seem to settle whether to call this one ' The Third Space War' (or the fourth) or whether ' The First Interstellar War' fits it better We just call it ' The Bug War' Everything up to then & still later were 'incidents' 'patrols' or 'police actions' However you are just as dead if you buy the farm in an 'incident' as you are if you buy it in a declared war'5000 years in the future humanity faces total extermination Our one defence highly-trained soldiers who scour the metal-strewn blackness of space to hunt down a terrifying enemy an insect life-form known only as ' Bugs' This is the story of trooper Johnny Rico from his idealistic enlistment in the infantry of the future through his rigorous training to the command of his own platoon & his destiny is a war that will span the galaxy