VOLUME FOUR OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS,
SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2 '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
Italy in 1943 ('The ship touched the beach very gently, so gently I
suspect it's not insured'). After a bout of Sandfly Fever, from
which he soon recovers ('I'm ready to be killed again'), our plucky
hero is piddled on by a farm dog ('Mussolini's revenge?') before
forging his way inland towards the enemy and the sound of guns
('We're getting near civilisation'), where matters suddenly take a
dark turn ('I was not really me any more') . . . ______________
'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever
read' Sunday Express 'Milligan is the Great God to all of us' John
Cleese 'The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard 'A
totally original comedy writer' Michael Palin 'Close in stature to
Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of
nonsense' Guardian
General
Imprint: |
Penguin Books
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Spike Milligan War Memoirs |
Release date: |
September 2012 |
First published: |
June 2012 |
Authors: |
Spike Milligan
|
Dimensions: |
198 x 130 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
287 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-241-95812-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Sport & Leisure >
Humour >
General
|
LSN: |
0-241-95812-1 |
Barcode: |
9780241958124 |
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