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25%OFFSpike Milligan - 'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?' - 9780241958100 - V9780241958100
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'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?'

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Description for 'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?' Paperback. Offers recollections of life as a gunner in World War Two that sees our hero into battle in North Africa - eventually. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 152.

VOLUME TWO OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A OUTRAGEOUS, HILARIOUS WW2 MEMOIRS

'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail

'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times
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'Keep talking, Milligan. I think I can get you out on Mental Grounds.'
'That's how I got in, sir.'
'Didn't we all.'

The second volume of Spike Milligan's legendary recollections of life as a gunner in World War Two sees our hero into battle in North Africa - eventually. First, there is important preparation to be done: extensive periods of loitering ('We had been standing by vehicles for an hour and nothing had happened, but it happened frequently'), psychological toughening ('If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it') and living dangerously ('no underwear!'). At last the battle for Tunis is upon them . . .
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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

Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Spike Milligan War Memoirs
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241958100
SKU
V9780241958100
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About Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show writer and performer, before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary Goon Show. Until his death in 2002, he had success as on stage and screen and as the author of over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories.

Reviews for 'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?'
The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read
Sunday Express
Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics ... throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes
Daily Mail
Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar
Sunday Times
Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense
Guardian
Milligan is the Great God to all of us
John Cleese The Godfather of Alternative Comedy
Eddie Izzard That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man
Stephen Fry Manifestly a genius, a comic surrealist genius and had no equal
Terry Wogan A totally original comedy writer
Michael Palin

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