Adolf Hitler : my part in his downfall
- 144 pages
- 6 hours of reading
Presents the recollections of the author's army life from enlistment to the landing at Algiers in 1943.
War Memoirs Series
This series of humorous memoirs captures the absurd and often surreal experiences during wartime. The author, with incredible lightness and wit, reveals the bizarre realities of military life and the senselessness of war's fury. Readers can expect unforgettable observations that balance the tragedy of war with comedy. It offers a unique perspective on historical events through the eyes of a comedian.
Recommended Reading Order
- 1
- 2
"Rommel?" "Gunner Who?" : a confrontation in the desert
- 208 pages
- 8 hours of reading
This is the second volume of Mr Milligan's reminiscences of World War II.
- 3
Monty : his part in my victory : war biography. Vol 3.
- 128 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five hundred gunners try to dance with two girls and an old French matron... up there in Valhalla, Monty's laughing fit to burst.
- 4
Britannia rules the waves TA-RA, but on occasions she waives the rules and Spike is all set to liberate-gasp-Italy. In this fourth volume of war memoirs, Lance-Bombardier Milligan (Spike actually) continues his notorious sage of World War II - from the long remembered outbreak of crabs in monkey to the unfortunate ack-acking of and American killyhawk. Dio mio, is war is a game of cards, someone was cheating.
- 5
Where Have All the Bullets Gone?
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Offers an account of life as a Bombardier in World War Two that sees our hero dispatched from the front line to psychiatric hospital and from there to a rehabilitation camp.
- 6
Goodbye Soldier
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Offer an account of author's part in World War Two that sees our hero doing very little soldiering. Because it's 1946. Rather, he is now part of the Bill Hall Trio - a 'Combined Services Entertainment' inflicted on unsuspecting soldiers across Italy and Austria - and is largely preoccupied with the unbearably beautiful ballerina, Ms Toni Fontana.
- 7
Peace Work
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
From the giddy heights of Hackney Empire to a Zurich Freak Show and beyond, the author makes his way through backwaters of showbiz, first as band musician then as one-man wild-act and eventually in the company of a group of like- minded comedians called Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers. They decide to call themselves The Goons...