Customer Reviews:
 Not for the faint hearted October 30, 2007
This second of Milligan's war memoirs. We find him in North Africa in 1943 fighting his way towards the ultimate defeat of the Axis powers at Tunis. Not single handedly, of course: apparently Generals Alexander and Montgomery had some hand in it as well!
Along the way we get to share more of Milligan's sense of humour, absurdity, horror, outrage, truly perceptive insights and simple pleasures along the way.
This book will place you so firmly alongside him in the time and location that you will hear the rounds buzzing by you and feel the rumble of heavier stuff through your feet, such is his ability to draw the reader into his thoughts and experiences. Effortlessly you will go from rib-tickling merry making to finding yourself in mortal danger and then back again almost as soon as it began.
You will also experience the life of a soldier with all its boredom and barrackroom courseness. Milligan lets you share the feelings of loss and stupid waste when comrades are taken away into instant oblivion.
Of all war accounts I've read Milligan's is perhaps the most courageously honest and casual in style, yet captures the greater depths and ranges of human emotion and experience in relatively simple writing. Some may be surprised to find that for one who is best known for his wacky comedy, Milligan often shows the contemplative depth and honesty that would otherwise suit a philosopher.
And who is that sweet tenor sometimes singing in the night?!
A wonderful war memoir... March 13, 2003
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
A very quick and surprisingly engrossing book. ROMMEL is just as good if not better than its predecessor, Adolf hitler: My Part in His downfall. Milligan does a fantastic job of juggling the humor and the tragedy without overwhelming the reader with the events of the times. His sad nostalgia isn't as pronounced as it is in DOWNFALL, but it is there, as he does take time out from reminiscing to hammer out a paragraph about how he longs for the old days. His writing makes those who never experienced it long for it as well.
READ THIS BOOK NOW! April 13, 2001
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is the funniest book I have ever read. A totally belivable account of World War 2 seen through the eyes of Spike Milligan. Ever since I read this I have been trying to get the other three books, and I imagine you will too.
Mr Milligan defeats Rommel. May 30, 2000
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is not only a masterful war memoir but also terrifically funny as are the others in this series. My only criticism is that none of Mr Milligan's books are published in the US, which says a great deal about the depth of American culture.
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