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Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780241958117 Author(s): Spike Milligan Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 2012 Edition: 3rd Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Pages: 128 Series: Spike Milligan War Memoirs

Description: Reissued for the first time since publication, Volume Three of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs'It's all over, Von Arnheim has surrendered and he's very angry.''This could mean war...'The third volume of Spike Milligan's laugh-a-line account of life as a gunner in World War Two resumes on the eve of victory in North Africa. Now Britain's looniest war hero must combat some of the direst threats a soldier has ever faced - boredom ('Christ, I just thought of Catford'), a cold ('In this weather?' 'Yed.'), moving camp ('It's a sort of Brighton with camels'), relaxing on the beach ('Life was golden, and we were the assayers'), moving camp again ('We're already somewhere else'), a visit to Carthage ('It's terrible, it's like Catford') and a perilous encounter with the gloriously endowed Mademoiselle Villion (''Help! massage,' I said weakly'). Against the odds, they survive and are sent at last to Italy to be killed...

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