Most of it is a humorous look at Spikes war experience and it had some serious sides to it along with the humour. The book has a tone of photo's and drawings which are a nice addition to the text, and fit well with the way the book is written. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall, is the first of Spike Milligan's seven memoirs that recount his recollections of life in the army during World War 2. Adolf Hitler: My Part on His Downfall is volume One of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs.

The door flew open and in crashed the master-spy himself, Gruenthaphartz, measuring five rounds gun-fire by inches three, and clad only in a huge fur coat of huge fur, a sou'wester, and two hand-painted barges strapped to his feet for a quick getaway. The last page for example when he talks about two tragedies, lightens it with the story of the Burnt Bum Affair before hitting you with the final line. He is famous for his work in The Goon Show, children's poetry and a series of comical autobiographical novels about his experiences serving in the British Army in WWII.The film Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1972) was produced by Gregory Smith and Norman Cohen, and directed by Norman Cohen. My neighbours probably think I've gone completely off my trolley as I've spent most of this book laughing very much out loud! The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged.

Luckily I was in the man cave whilst my other half slept like Tutankhamun's long-dehydrated corpse in the next room. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins.But it is hard to be tickled to death when, at the same time, Milligan is also gunning for biting, bitter satirical commentary on the state of the war itself and how it came home to rattle the whole of Britain .

Although he was also a talented musician, he became known for his mad cap and often surreal comedy writing, particularly his work on the Goon Show. These men are sometimes "posted", which is described in a footnote as "the art of being shifted sideways". I'm actually not entirely sure how many volumes of this I read the first time around but I'm pretty sure it wasn't all seven. The preface anticipates the book will be part of a trilogy; years later, the cover of the fourth volume said: "Don't be fooled this is the last, volume four of the war memoirs.

For all the privations of army life, it is clear that Spike had a lot of fun during this period, and the humour that was to make his name with the Goons and beyond is here in abundance.

Like the potentilly funny scene where Spike and his sargent are being chased by a bull but find out that it's really a cow. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Absent a major background in The Goon Squad (which I do not have) or other 1950-1980 British radio and television comedy (which I do) it is likely that a lot of this will mean little to even a modern Englishman.Milligan's flippant, conversational tone keeps things wonderfully lively and balances both morbid darkness and cheery camaraderie on an even keel; for all the hilarity and horror, there are also lovely, leisurely moments when the troops celebrate with song, dance and fervent affairs with ladies in between. Part 3 begins a year previously, and launches into a favourite Milligan literary aside—a long discussion of setting up musical shows, including names of songs, instruments and players. I am amazed it took me so long to get around to reading Spike Milligan’s war memoirs, but I am truly glad that there are many more books to read. There are some wonderful set pieces like Spike being conned into fighting a much bigger oppenant and when should have been a sidesplitting war games adventure, but the comic payoffs aren't there. Yes, that is what some of this book, the first in the series of wartime memoirs by celebrated British comedian Spike Milligan (who was, coincidentally, the inspiration for Monty Python in the first place with his group act 'The Goon Show'), would feel like: hilarious, anarchic, almost brutally sarcastic, bawdy and guaranteed to leave you in splits.