"Milligan's War" is a single volume selected edition of Spike Milligan's war memoirs, published to celebrate Britain's funniest old soldier's seventieth birthday on April 16th, 1988. Adolf Hitler, Monty, Mussolini, Rommel (who?) – they all played their humble parts in World War II and the shaping of human destiny, but we all know where the real action was... Milligan's war captures it in words and pictures. The most subversive, quirky, and certainly the funniest military career ever undertaken by any bombardier of the 56th Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery.

"The most irreverent, funny book about war I've ever read" - Sunday Express
"Desperately funny, lively, vulgar" - Sunday Times
"Milligan is the Great God for all of us" - John Cleese
"The Godfather of Alternative Comedy" - Eddie Izzard
"This absolutely wonderful perspective of seeing things differently. A great man" - Stephen Fry

Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served with the Royal Artillery during World War II in North Africa and Italy. After the war, he carved out a career as a jazz musician, writer, and sketch performer, before teaming up with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary Goon Show. By the time of his death in 2002, he had found success on stage and screen and as the author of more than eighty books of literature, memoirs, poetry, plays, cartoons, and children's stories.

Pages: 432, Dimensions: 11.1x11.1cm