'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert: Spike Milligan War Memoirs
Autor Spike Milliganen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 sep 2012
'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
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241958100
ISBN-10: 0241958105
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Seria Spike Milligan War Memoirs
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241958105
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Seria Spike Milligan War Memoirs
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
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.
Recenzii
The
most
irreverent,
hilarious
book
about
the
war
that
I
have
ever
read
Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics ... throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes
Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar
Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense
Milligan is the Great God to all of us
The Godfather of Alternative Comedy
That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man
Manifestly a genius, a comic surrealist genius and had no equal
A totally original comedy writer
Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics ... throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes
Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar
Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense
Milligan is the Great God to all of us
The Godfather of Alternative Comedy
That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man
Manifestly a genius, a comic surrealist genius and had no equal
A totally original comedy writer