Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall [inscribed by author]

Spike Milligan

ISBN 10: 0140035206 / ISBN 13: 9780140035209

Published by Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1973

About this Item

142 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. inscribed by Milligan to his friend Frederick Gore. 'Volume 1 of Spike Milligan's war biography takes him from the outbreak of war in 1939 to the landing in Algiers in 1943 - an outrageously subversive first-hand account of World War 2.'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall [inscribed by author]
• Publisher: Harmondsworth : Penguin Books
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140035206
• ISBN 13: 9780140035209
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Military History

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Synopsis

'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'. Spike Milligan's on the march, blitzing friend and foe alike with his uproarious recollections of army life from enlistment to the landing at Algiers in 1943. Bathos, pathos and gales of drunken laughter, and insane military goonery explode in superlative Milliganese.

About the Author

Spike Milligan was born at Ahmednagar in India in 1918. 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.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 began his career as a band musician, but has since become famous as a humorous scriptwriter and actor in both films and broadcasting. Spike received an honorary CBE in 1992.