Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies.
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall written and read by Spike Milligan.
'At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked "This is your enemy". I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train . . .'
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 appendicitus, I thought') and his gunner training in Bexhill ('There was one drawback. No ammunition') to the landing at Algiers in 1943 ('I closed my eyes and faced the sun. I fell down a hatchway').
Filled with bathos, pathos and gales of ribald laughter, this is a barely sane helping of military goonery and superlative Milliganese.
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Details
- Spike Milligan - Author
- Spike Milligan - Narrator
OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780241973172
- File size: 98106 KB
- Release date: February 4, 2016
- Duration: 03:24:23
MP3 audiobook
- ISBN: 9780241973172
- File size: 98258 KB
- Release date: February 4, 2016
- Duration: 03:24:21
- Number of parts: 3
Formats
OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
Languages
English