'ROMMEL?' 'GUNNER WHO?'

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Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918 he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war he forged a career as a jazz musician sketchshow writer and performer before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary Goon Show. Until his death in 2002 he had success as on stage and screen and as the author of over eighty books of fiction memoir poetry plays cartoons and childrens stories.The most irreverent hilarious book about the war that I have ever readBrilliant verbal pyrotechnics ... throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotesDesperately funny vivid vulgarClose in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsenseMilligan is the Great God to all of usThe Godfather of Alternative ComedyThat absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great manManifestly a genius a comic surrealist genius and had no equalA totally original comedy writerVOLUME TWO OF SPIKE MILLIGANS LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A OUTRAGEOUS HILARIOUS WW2 MEMOIRSBrilliant verbal pyrotechnics throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes Daily MailDesperately funny vivid vulgar Sunday Times______________Keep talking Milligan. I think I can get you out on Mental Grounds.Thats how I got in sir.Didnt we all.The second volume of Spike Milligans legendary recollections of life as a gunner in World War Two sees our hero into battle in North Africa eventually. First there is important preparation to be done: extensive periods of loitering (We had been standing by vehicles for an hour and nothing had happened but it happened frequently) psychological toughening (If a man dies when you hang him keep hanging him until he gets used to it) and living dangerously (no underwear!). At last the battle for Tunis is upon them . . .______________The most irreverent hilarious book about the war that I have ever read Sunday ExpressMilligan is the Great God to all of us John CleeseThe Godfather of Alternative Comedy Eddie IzzardA totally original comedy writer Michael PalinClose in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense GuardianGB

Data Publikacji: 2012-09-06
Wymiary: 198 mm 129 mm 13 mm 149 gr