Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall (Spike Milligan War Memoirs)

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It was a little hard to get into at first, given the colloquialisms that Milligan is wont to use, but you get used to it fairly quickly (at least I did, being an American who's an Anglophile at heart). Milligan refers to his first commanding officer as "Leather Suitcase" for the numerous leather patches on his uniform.

Luckily I was in the man cave whilst my other half slept like Tutankhamun's long-dehydrated corpse in the next room.

And while at times I enjoyed that style, and had to laugh because of what I read, at other points it came across a little forces. I love it, cannot wait to read more, he certainly has a talent for painting a vivid and often funny picture with his words. Milligan then facetiously describes the last of them as being found "naked save for a vest one sock" sitting on the back of a lorry, "waiting to be posted".

Simple yet effectively stirring and utterly believable because this was exactly how everybody felt in those days.I'm actually not entirely sure how many volumes of this I read the first time around but I'm pretty sure it wasn't all seven. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins.

Like the potentilly funny scene where Spike and his sargent are being chased by a bull but find out that it's really a cow.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It must be born in mind that the language and atitudes were those of the common squadie at that time and do not represent those of this society now. While there he was given the usual punitive tasks such as shovelling coke into a single pile in pouring rain, but his guards also appreciated his artistic ability, and he was asked to draw Vargas girls for them to hang on the wall. This book has laugh out loud lines on every page, and I would guess all the other volumes will have too.