Review: 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 Close in stature to Lewis Carroll
and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense
Guardian Milligan is the Great God to all of us -- John Cleese The
Godfather of Alternative Comedy -- Eddie Izzard That absolutely
glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man --
Stephen Fry Manifestly a genius, a comic surrealist genius and had
no equal -- Terry Wogan A totally original comedy writer -- Michael
Palin '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 have been something we said'), through his attempts
to avoid enlistment ('time for my appendicitus, I thought') and his
gunner training in Bexhill ('There was one drawback. No
ammunition') to the landing at Algiers in 1943 ('I closed my eyes
and faced the sun. I fell down a hatchway'). Filled with bathos,
pathos and gales of ribald laughter, this is a barely sane helping
of military goonery and superlative Milliganese.
General
Imprint: |
Penguin Books
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Spike Milligan War Memoirs |
Release date: |
May 2012 |
First published: |
June 2012 |
Authors: |
Spike Milligan
|
Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 8mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
144 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-241-95809-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Sport & Leisure >
Humour >
General
|
LSN: |
0-241-95809-1 |
Barcode: |
9780241958094 |
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