Ebook: Mussolini: his part in my downfall
Author: Hobbs Jack, Milligan Spike
- Tags: Authors English, Authors English--20th century, Autobiography: Arts & Entertainment, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Military, Comedians, Comedians--Great Britain, HISTORY--Military--World War II, HUMOR--Form--Essays, Humour, PERFORMING ARTS--Comedy, Performing arts: comedy, Second World War, Soldiers, Soldiers--Great Britain, World War 1939-1945, Biographies, Humor, Personal narratives, Milligan Spike -- 1918-2002, Authors English -- 20th century -- Biography, Comedians -- Great Britain -- Biography, Soldiers -- G
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- City: 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
A voice is calling across the land, 'Bombardier Milligan.' 'Bombadier Milligan is dead,' I replied in a disguised voice. The voice replied, 'Then he's going to miss his breakfast.'
The fourth volume of Spike Milligan's legendary account of his time in the army during World War Two begins as he and his regiment land in sunny...