![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() _ 'That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. Filled with bathos, pathos and gales of ribald laughter, this is a barely sane helping of military goonery and superlative Milliganese. No ammunition') to the landing at Algiers in 1943 ('I closed my eyes and faced the sun. ' 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 appendicitis, I thought') and his gunner training in Bexhill ('There was one drawback. ![]() I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked "This is your enemy". Availability Status : Available for order from suppliers. Volume one of Spike Milligan's legendary memoirs is a hilarious, subversive first-hand account of WW2 'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express 'Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense' Guardian _ 'At Victoria station the R.T.O. Adolf Hitler : My Part in his Downfall (Spike Milligan War Memoirs). In Spikes own words, this comedy follows Gunner Milligan and his jazz quartet through the Second World War, showing how humour, music and comradeship enabled a. ![]()
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