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Mussolini

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Description for Mussolini Paperback. Offers an account of author's time in the army during World War Two that 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'). Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 208.

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
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A voice is calling across the land, 'Bombardier Milligan.' 'Bombadier Milligan is dead,' I replied in a...

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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
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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') . . .
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'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

Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Spike Milligan War Memoirs
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241958124
SKU
V9780241958124
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Ref
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About Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show writer and performer, before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe...
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Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show writer and performer, before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary Goon Show. Until his death in 2002, he had success as on stage and screen and as the author of over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories.

Reviews for Mussolini
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...
Read more
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

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