Ebook: Goodbye Soldier
Author: Milligan Spike
- Tags: Authors English, Authors English--20th century, Autobiography: Arts & Entertainment, Autobiography: General, Autobiography: Historical Political & Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Entertainment & Performing Arts, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Military, Comedians, Comedians--Great Britain, HUMOR--Form--Essays, Humour, PERFORMING ARTS--Comedy, Performing arts: comedy, Second World War, World War 1939-1945, Personal narratives, Biographies, Biography, Electronic books, Milligan Spike -- 1918-2002, World War 19
- 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
'My namer is Maria Antonoinetta Fontana, but everyone call me Toni.' 'I'm Spike, sometimes known as stop thief or hey you.' 'Yeser, I know.'
The sixth volume of Spike Milligan's off-the-wall account of his part in World War Two sees our hero doing very little soldiering. Because it's 1946. Rather, he is now part of the Bill...