Ebook: Where Have All the Bullets Gone?
Author: Great Britain. Army, Milligan Spike
- Tags: Comedy, Comedians--Great Britain, Humour, Second World War, Soldiers--Great Britain, World War 1939-1945, Soldiers, Comedians, Personal narratives, Humor, Electronic books, Biographies, Biography, Milligan Spike -- 1918-2002, Great Britain. -- Army -- Biography, Great Britain. -- Army, World War 1939-1945 -- Humor, World War 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives British, Comedians -- Great Britain -- Biography, Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Biography, Great Britain, Comedy -- Milligan Spike - Biographies
- Year: 1985
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- City: London;Great Britain
- Language: English
- epub
Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies since they first appeared.
'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express
'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail
'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times
Back to those haunting days in Italy in 1944, at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, with lava running in great red rivulets down the slope towards us, and Jock taking a drag on his cigarette and saying, 'I think we've got grounds for a rent rebate.'
The fifth volume of Spike Milligan's unsurpassed account of life as a Bombardier in...