The first half of this book, the build up before they get to France, was so good I had thought "Man, this is even better than the original M*A*S*H" However after they got there it wasn't as good as it could be, almost like a dash to the end.

I suspect that I missed some thing as I didn't read "Mash goes to New Orleans" Like the Buyou Perdu K of C council. While these guys were part of what made the good viciously hilarious. It also was hard for me to swallow, primarily because Butterworth seemed to just make up positions and titles instead of taking the added effort to actually use positions within the Knights of Columbus. I understand this was written Prior to the Internet, so the effort would have been more than now, but still...

Other than that I found it hilarious, but the precedence that in order to distract the US Government from asking about World War I debt France owed, they would give metals to a bunch of Americans instead, to the idea that Radar O'Rieley could read minds and this is what allowed him to become the head of some fast food restaurant empire. Etc. Etc. So although we lost the end, I like it a lot. ( )