Imprint: Penguin
Published: 06/09/2012
ISBN: 9780241958131
Length: 288 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
Weight: 202g
RRP: £8.99
VOLUME FIVE OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2
'The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard
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'Back to those haunting days in Italy in 1944, at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, with lava running in great red rivulets down the slope towards us, and Jock taking a drag on his cigarette and saying, "I think we've got grounds for a rent rebate."'
Where Have All the Bullets Gone? sees our hero dispatched from the front line to psychiatric hospital and from there to a rehabilitation camp. Considered loony (and 'unfit to be killed in combat by either side'), he becomes embroiled in his own private battle with melancholy.
But it is music, wit and a little help from his friends - including one Gunner Harry Secombe - that help carry him through to his first stage appearances . . .
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'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times
'Milligan is the Great God to all of us' John Cleese
'That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man' Stephen Fry
Imprint: Penguin
Published: 06/09/2012
ISBN: 9780241958131
Length: 288 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
Weight: 202g
RRP: £8.99
The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read
Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics ... throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes
Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar
Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense
Milligan is the Great God to all of us
The Godfather of Alternative Comedy
That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man
Manifestly a genius, a comic surrealist genius and had no equal
A totally original comedy writer