Sinopsis
Volume one of Spike Milligans legendary memoirs is a hilarious, subversive first-hand 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
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At Victoria station the R.T.O. 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 appendicitis, 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 helping of military goonery and superlative Milliganese.
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That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man Stephen Fry
Milligan is the Great God to all of us John Cleese
The Godfather of Alternative Comedy Eddie Izzard
Manifestly a genius, a comic surrealist genius and had no equal Terry Wogan
A totally original comedy writer Michael Palin
