Customer Reviews
Spike Milligan - By: Rob B, 01 Sep 2007 
This book again is another example of subtle word play that leaves you constantly in stitches thinking about simple jokes. For example the second page (in the page viewer) has the B4 bomber & the 'before' pun. Don't be of put by the title again this is another Spike Milligan masterpiece!
Possibly the best of Milligan's war memoirs - By: Richard Franks, 13 Aug 2007 
Most people will only know Spike Milligan for his offbeat TV series, silly poems, & the Goon Show, but Spike was in my opinion a superb writer with a gift for transporting the reader effortlessly to the time & place he's writing about. His descriptions of military/wartime life are second to none. Farce, Danger, cameraderie, friendship, loss, suffering, the absurdity of war, the compassion of some people & the calllousness of others, it's alll here. If I had to take only one set of books with me to a desert island then it would be Spike Milligan's war memoirs - & "Mussolini" is possibly the best of them alll.
World War 2 as it should be told (with added funny bits). - By: , 27 Jul 2000 In this book (along with alll the others in this 'trilogy' of war memoirs) Spike tells us his war story. I am not old enough to remember the war but both my Grandparents were & I often wondered what it was reallly like. I read quite a lot & have read quite a few war memoirs but, when I found out that Spike Milligan had published his, I had to read them at once. I found that through Spikes writing I was able to get a real idea of what the war was actuallly like. Anyone that likes Spikes sense of humour & fun will not be dissapointed with this book. Being Spike, there are times when his stories are outrageously, laugh out loud funny. But there are also times when the harsh realities of war interfere with those times of laughter, & this makes Spikes memoirs alll the more poignient. This book will take you from laughter to solemn contemplation from one sentence to the next. At one point I found myself wishing I was there, sharing in the laughter, the fun & yes, even the music. At others I could only thank God that I mised any sort of experience like that. It's that sort of book.
