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VOLUME FOUR OF SPIKE MILLIGANS LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2

Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotesDaily Mail

Desperately funny, vivid, vulgarSunday Times
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A voice is calling across the land, Bombardier Milligan.Bombadier Milligan is dead, I replied in a disguised voice. The voice replied, Then hes going to miss his breakfast.

The fourth volume of Spike Milligans legendary account of his time in the army during World War Two begins as he and his regiment land in sunny Italy in 1943 (The ship touched the beach very gently, so gently I suspect its not insured).

After a bout of Sandfly Fever, from which he soon recovers (Im ready to be killed again), our plucky hero is piddled on by a farm dog (Mussolinis revenge?) before forging his way inland towards the enemy and the sound of guns (Were getting near civilisation), where matters suddenly take a dark turn (I was not really me any more) . . .
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The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever readSunday Express
Milligan is the Great God to all of us John Cleese

The Godfather of Alternative Comedy Eddie Izzard

A totally original comedy writer Michael Palin

Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsenseGuardian