'A totally original comedy writer' Michael Palin 'Manifestly a genius, a comic surrealist genius and had no equal' Terry Wogan 'The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard 'Milligan is the Great God to all of us' John Cleese 'That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. I fell down a hatchway').įilled 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". 'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times 'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail 'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express They have sold over 4.5 million copies since they first appeared.
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.
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