spike milligan my part in hitler's downfall

Contemporary ink inscription to front endpaper. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Original unclipped dust wrapper very smart with light shelf wear and minor chipping to the extremities. Externally, excellent with light shelf wear only. With his father dying, Jim is forced from the Benbow with his mother and his friend Groucho Marx to search for the buried treasure.

A comic novel spoof of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Jim Hawkins has met a rum-addicted sailor known only as 'Captain', who leaves Jim a treasure map upon his death. Treasure Island According to Spike Milligan, 2000. A humorous parody of the 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell, written from the point to view of Black Beauty, revealing what it's like to be a horse. Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan, 1996. The book spans the period from Britain's declaration of war on Germany to when Milligan lands in Algeria as a part of the Allied liberation of Africa. The first volume of Milligan's war memoirs. Illustrated with many drawings and photographs throughout. Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, 1973. Written by Terence Alan 'Spike' Milligan, an Irish actor, comedian, writer, musician, poet, and playwright. Three volumes of work by Irish actor, writer, comedian, poet, and playwright, Spike Milligan. Until his death in 2002, he had success as on stage and screen and as the author of over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories.Cloth. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show writer and performer, before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary 'Goon Show'. Comic adaptation of Spike Milligans wartime autobiography starring Jim Dale, and featuring Milligan himself as. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. 'That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. 'Milligan is the Great God to all of us'. 'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read'. Filled 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 appendicitus, I thought') and his gunner training in Bexhill ('There was one drawback. I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked 'This is your enemy'. 'Adolf Hitler: My Part on His Downfall' is volume One of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs. Print Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall

Spike milligan my part in hitler's downfall