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The second volume of Mr Milligan's reminiscences of World War II.
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Spike Milligan was born at Ahmednagar in India in 1918. He received his first education in a tent in the Hyderabad Sindh desert and graduated from there, through a series of Roman Catholic schools in India and England, to the Lewisham Polytechnic.
He then plunged into the world of Show Business, seduced by his first stage appearance, at the age of eight, in the nativity play of his Poona convent school. He began his career as a band musician, but has since become famous as a humorous scriptwriter and actor in both films and broadcasting. Spike received an honorary CBE in 1992.
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If you read the first volume of this trilogy, you will know that in Jan. 1943 19 Battery 56th Heavy Rgt R.A. had arrived in the continent of Africa, which couldn't have cared less. Read the first page
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
A very quick and surprisingly engrossing book. ROMMEL is just as good if not better than its predecessor, Adolf hitler: My Part in His downfall. Milligan does a fantastic job of juggling the humor and the tragedy without overwhelming the reader with the events of the times. His sad nostalgia isn't as pronounced as it is in DOWNFALL, but it is there, as he does take time out from reminiscing to hammer out a paragraph about how he longs for the old days. His writing makes those who never experienced it long for it as well.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This is not only a masterful war memoir but also terrifically funny as are the others in this series. My only criticism is that none of Mr Milligan's books are published in the US, which says a great deal about the depth of American culture.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This second of Milligan's war memoirs. We find him in North Africa in 1943 fighting his way towards the ultimate defeat of the Axis powers at Tunis. Not single handedly, of course: apparently Generals Alexander and Montgomery had some hand in it as well!
Along the way we get to share more of Milligan's sense of humour, absurdity, horror, outrage, truly perceptive insights and simple pleasures.
This book will place you so firmly alongside him in the time and location that you will hear the rounds buzzing by you and feel the rumble of heavier stuff through your feet, such is his ability to draw the reader into his thoughts and experiences. Effortlessly you will go from rib-tickling merry making to finding yourself in mortal danger and then back again almost as soon as it began.
You will also experience the life of a soldier with all its boredom and barrackroom courseness. Milligan lets you share the feelings of loss and stupid waste when comrades are taken away into instant oblivion.
Of all war accounts I've read Milligan's is perhaps the most courageously honest and casual in style, yet captures the greater depths and ranges of human emotion and experience in relatively simple writing. Some may be surprised to find that for one who is best known for his wacky comedy, Milligan often shows the contemplative depth and honesty that would otherwise suit a philosopher.
And who is that sweet tenor he sometimes hears singing in the night?!
Along the way we get to share more of Milligan's sense of humour, absurdity, horror, outrage, truly perceptive insights and simple pleasures.
This book will place you so firmly alongside him in the time and location that you will hear the rounds buzzing by you and feel the rumble of heavier stuff through your feet, such is his ability to draw the reader into his thoughts and experiences. Effortlessly you will go from rib-tickling merry making to finding yourself in mortal danger and then back again almost as soon as it began.
You will also experience the life of a soldier with all its boredom and barrackroom courseness. Milligan lets you share the feelings of loss and stupid waste when comrades are taken away into instant oblivion.
Of all war accounts I've read Milligan's is perhaps the most courageously honest and casual in style, yet captures the greater depths and ranges of human emotion and experience in relatively simple writing. Some may be surprised to find that for one who is best known for his wacky comedy, Milligan often shows the contemplative depth and honesty that would otherwise suit a philosopher.
And who is that sweet tenor he sometimes hears singing in the night?!
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In this, the second part of Spike's classic war memoirs, the 'phoney war' of Bexhill is definitely over as his artillery battalion is sent to North Africa and see action for the... Read more
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A wonderful account of a weary group of men.
The circumstance these soldiers find themselves in, leave them little option. to laugh or die. For king and country. Read more
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This is the funniest book I have ever read. A totally belivable account of World War 2 seen through the eyes of Spike Milligan. Read more
Published on 13 April 2001
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