He then plunged into the world of Show Business, seduced by his first stage appearance, at the age of eight, in the nativity play of his Poona convent school. He received his first education in a tent in the Hyderabad Sindh desert and graduated from there, through a series of Roman Catholic schools in India and England, to the Lewisham Polytechnic. 'A totally original comedy writer' Michael PalinĪbout the Author: A legendary and iconic figure, Spike Milligan was born at Ahmednagar in India in 1918. 'Manifestly a genius, a comic surrealist genius and had no equal' Terry Wogan 'The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard 'Milligan is the Great God to all of us' John Cleese
'That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. I fell down a hatchway').įilled with bathos, pathos and gales of ribald laughter, this is a barely sane helping of military goonery and superlative Milliganese. No ammunition') to the landing at Algiers in 1943 ('I closed my eyes and faced the sun. In this, the first of Spike Milligan's 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. I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked "This is your enemy". 'Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense' Guardian 'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express Volume one of Spike Milligan's legendary memoirs is a hilarious, subversive first-hand account of WW2 Aircraft & Spacecraft: General Interest.
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