Ebook: Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall
Author: Milligan Spike
- Tags: Authors English, Authors English--20th century, Comedians, Comedians--Great Britain, HUMOR--Form--Essays, Humour, Second World War, Soldiers, Soldiers--Great Britain, World War 1939-1945, Biographies, Personal narratives, Humor, Milligan Spike -- 1918-2002, World War 1939-1945 -- Humor, World War 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives British, Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Biography, Authors English -- 20th century -- Biography, Comedians -- Great Britain -- Biography, HUMOR -- Form -- Essays, Great Britain
- Series: Spike Milligan War Memoirs 1
- 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
'At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked "This is your enemy". I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train...'
In this, the first of Spike Milligan's uproarious recollections of life in the army, our hero takes us from the outbreak of war in 1939 ('it must...