Adolf Hitler, Spike Milligan
Adolf Hitler, Spike Milligan
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Adolf Hitler
My Part in his Downfall

Author: Spike Milligan

Series: Spike Milligan War Memoirs

Narrator: Spike Milligan

Unabridged: 3 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 02/04/2016


Synopsis

Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall written and read by Spike Milligan.

'At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked "This is your enemy". I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train . . .'

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. No ammunition') to the landing at Algiers in 1943 ('I closed my eyes and faced the sun. I fell down a hatchway').

Filled with bathos, pathos and gales of ribald laughter, this is a barely sane helping of military goonery and superlative Milliganese.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Telesilla on September 22, 2007

Recently when I posted a quote from this book, people guessed that it came from Terry Prachett or Monty Python or Douglas Adams. Which is actually rather revealing because if modern British comedy and humor writers have a spiritual grandfather, it's Spike Milligan. Although he was also a talented mu......more

Goodreads review by Nigeyb on September 09, 2019

Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall, is the first of Spike Milligan's seven memoirs that recount his recollections of life in the army during World War 2. I read this book as a teenager in the mid-1970s (or, put another way, a very long time ago) and I loved it and have always meant to read it aga......more

Goodreads review by Cathal on May 07, 2018

Brilliant! I was shown a picture of Adolf Hitler and was told ,this is your enemy. I searched every compartment of the train but I couldn't find him anywhere. If this isn't enough to rope you in then I don't know what is. It piqued my curiosity immediately. A brilliant take of life during wartime. Ha......more