Sinopsis
VOLUME FOUR OF SPIKE MILLIGANS LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND 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 hes going to miss his breakfast.
The fourth volume of Spike Milligans legendary 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 its not insured).
After a bout of Sandfly Fever, from which he soon recovers (Im ready to be killed again), our plucky hero is piddled on by a farm dog (Mussolinis revenge?) before forging his way inland towards the enemy and the sound of guns (Were 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
