Ebook: Peace Work
Author: Milligan Spike
- Tags: Authors English, Authors English--20th century, Autobiography: Arts & Entertainment, Comedians, Comedians--Great Britain, HISTORY / Military / World War II, HUMOR / Form / Essays, Humour, PERFORMING ARTS / Comedy, Performing arts: comedy, Second World War, Electronic books, Biographies, Biography, Milligan Spike -- 1918-2002, Authors English -- 20th century -- Biography, Comedians -- Great Britain -- Biography, Great Britain
- 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
'I had not informed my parents of my return, I wanted it to be a lovely surprise; it was, for me, they were away ...'
The seventh and last volume of Spike Milligan's memoirs sees our hero returning from war and Italy ... but to what? Aside from shooting large, inaccurate guns at Germans, all he has done for five long years is...