Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall

Milligan, Spike

ISBN 10: 0718108663 / ISBN 13: 9780718108663

Published by Michael Joseph Ltd, 1971

About this Item

First edition, third impression. A near fine copy in the dust wrapper, signed by the author on the front end paper, no other markings or inscriptions. First part of the war memoirs.

Seller Inventory # 028780

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
• Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0718108663
• ISBN 13: 9780718108663
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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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

The legendary and iconic figure, 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 became famous as a humorous scriptwriter and actor in both films and broadcasting. He was the creator, principal writer and performer of the infamous Goon Show. Spike received an honorary CBE in 1992 and Knighthood in 2000. He died in 2002.