![]() ![]() 'That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. I fell down a hatchway').įilled with bathos, pathos and gales of ribald laughter, this is a barely sane helping of military goonery and superlative Milliganese. ![]() ![]() No ammunition') to the landing at Algiers in 1943 ('I closed my eyes and faced the sun. In this, the first of Spike Milligan's uproarious recollections of life in the army, our hero takes us from the outbreak of war in 1939 ('it must have been something we said'), through his attempts to avoid enlistment ('time for my appendicitis, I thought') and his gunner training in Bexhill ('There was one drawback. I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train. Carl Lentz is providing an update on his life.The former Hillsong pastor, who was fired from the church for 'moral failings' in 2020, took to Instagram on Tuesday to share the status of his. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked "This is your enemy". 'Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense' Guardian ![]() 'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo Volume one of Spike Milligan's legendary memoirs is a hilarious, subversive first-hand account of WW2 ![]()
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