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Book SynopsisVOLUME TWO OF SPIKE MILLIGAN''S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A OUTRAGEOUS, HILARIOUS WW2 MEMOIRS
''Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes'' Daily Mail
''Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar'' Sunday Times
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''Keep talking, Milligan. I think I can get you out on Mental Grounds.''
''That''s how I got in, sir.''
''Didn''t we all.''
The second volume of Spike Milligan''s legendary recollections of life as a gunner in World War Two sees our hero into battle in North Africa - eventually. First, there is important preparation to be done: extensive periods of loitering (''We had been standing by vehicles for an hour and nothing had happened, but it happened frequently''), psychological toughening (''If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it'') and living dangerously (''no underwear!''). At last the battle for Tunis is up
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The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read * Sunday Express *
Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics ... throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes * Daily Mail *
Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar * Sunday Times *
Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense * Guardian *
Milligan is the Great God to all of us -- John Cleese
The Godfather of Alternative Comedy -- Eddie Izzard
That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man -- Stephen Fry
Manifestly a genius, a comic surrealist genius and had no equal -- Terry Wogan
A totally original comedy writer -- Michael Palin
