![]() His theater plays include, Treasure Island, The Bed Sitting Room and a novel-based play named Oblomov. Therefore, spike Milligan is akin to Dad's Army but overseas, or Allo Allo but in English - Trueish, enjoyable and leading inevitably to the final event - Well the end of the war obviously, but more importantly, the establishment of the group of comedians and musicians who made up The Goon Show. Spike Milligan wrote a series of war memoirs and did voice recordings for Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall in 1971, Monty: His Part In My Victory in 1976, and Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall (1978). ![]() ![]() ![]() The thing is - and I admit I am going to cut and paste this review for the other books in the series - we knew people got killed in the war, hadn't we sat through "The World At War" in colour or black and white depending on how stingy your parents were in buying into the whole colour TV business. It's almost as unthinkable as having a whole course on Harry Potter. Imagine studying Milligan as a text for WWII - memoirs. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is the aqueduct was very well-dressed). The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. Should be essential reading for explorers of the history of WWII, and indeed was for Modern European History 101 at the University of Western Australia which up until a few short years before the course was attended by fresh faced university students and desperate second chancers was the only university within 4,000 miles of anyone in Western Australia. Monty: His Part in My Victory Book descriptions Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. ![]()
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