Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall. by Spike Milligan
Paperback. Pub Date :2012-05-28 Pages: 144 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Group Adolf Hitler: My Part on His Downfall is volume One of Spike Milligans outrageous. hilarious. legendary War Memoirs.At Victoria station the RTO gave me a travel warrant. a white feather and a picture of Hitler...
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Paperback. Pub Date :2012-05-28 Pages: 144 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Group Adolf Hitler: My Part on His Downfall is volume One of Spike Milligans outrageous. hilarious. legendary War Memoirs.At Victoria station the RTO gave me a travel warrant. a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked This is your enemy. I searched every compartment. but he wasnt on the train ... In this. the first of Spike Milligans 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 appendicitus. I thought) and his gunner training in Bexhill (There was one drawback. No ammunition) to the landing at Algiers in 1943 (I closed my eyes and faced the sun. I fell down a hatchway). Filled with bathos. pathos and gales of ribald laughter. this is a barely sane h...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780241958094 (0241958091)
Publish date: June 1st 2012
Publisher: Viking
Edition language: English
Series: War Memoirs (#1)
Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall, is the first of Spike Milligan's seven memoirs that recount his recollections of life in the army during World War 2. I read this book as a teenager in the mid-1970s (or, put another way, a very long time ago) and I loved it and have always meant to read it aga...
This is a very funny book. It was a little hard to get into at first, given the colloquialisms that Milligan is wont to use, but you get used to it fairly quickly (at least I did, being an American who's an Anglophile at heart). The humor is pithy and nearly constant, but there's a good look into wh...
Read and enjoyed many of Spike's books back in the day..“The die was cast. It was a proud day for the Milligan family as I was taken from the house. "I'm too young to go," I screamed as Military Policemen dragged me from my pram, clutching a dummy. At Victoria Station the R.T.O. gave me a travel war...
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