| Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall | 
 enlarge | Author: Spike Milligan
Creator: Jack Hobbs
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 61508
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0140051961
Dewey Decimal Number: 817
EAN: 9780140051964
ASIN: 0140051961
Publication Date: January 3, 1980
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: few creases and dents on covers, pages a bit suntanned, but still readable.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Spike Milligan September 1, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
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 and 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 August 13, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Most people will only know Spike Milligan for his offbeat TV series, silly poems, and the Goon Show, but Spike was in my opinion a superb writer with a gift for transporting the reader effortlessly to the time and 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 and the callousness of others, it's all 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 - and "Mussolini" is possibly the best of them all.
World War 2 as it should be told (with added funny bits). July 27, 2000
23 out of 30 found this review helpful
In this book (along with all 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 and I often wondered what it was really like. I read quite a lot and 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 actually like. Anyone that likes Spikes sense of humour and 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, and this makes Spikes memoirs all 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 and 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.
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