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Chargement... Adolf Hitler : my part in his downfall (1971)par Spike Milligan
Information sur l'oeuvreAdolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall par Spike Milligan (1971)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. The humor was a little too silly-British for me. ( ) I’ve been knocked out with something (maybe COVID-19, but who knows) for the last couple of weeks and hadn’t finished a book in that time until today. I tried a couple of light thrillers (Cussler and MacLean) but couldn’t concentrate on them. Spike Milligan’s ‘Adolf Hitler, My Part in his Downfall’ broke my reader’s block. It’s a very silly, but also insightful autobiographical account of Milligan’s time in the army during WW2, this first volume focussing on his conscription and training. It’s definitely “of its time”(translation: a bit racist - there is one scene where Milligan gets covered in oil and does a Paul Robeson impression ), but aside from that there is a lot to enjoy. When he’s funny, he’s very very funny, and the combination of silly puns and the episodic nature of the book (i.e. you don’t have to pay too much attention) made it perfect for reading on my sick bed. Goon Show-style humour has never been entirely to my taste, but even so I was a bit surprised that I didn't find much to enjoy in this book. The combination of witty comedic writer and war memoir – being a World War Two buff, myself – seemed certain to fire my interest, but I struggled with this first volume of Spike Milligan's memoirs. The insights into Milligan's war experiences are paltry and the laughs weren't as plentiful as I expected – and poorly set up. The absence of any storytelling nous is a drag, and the book can't be said to be well-written or organised. Humour and war memoir can be done together – see George MacDonald Fraser's unimpeachable Quartered Safe Out Here – but it's not a roaring success here. Good title, though. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Adolf Hitler- My Part on His Downfall is volume One of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs. '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. 'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express 'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times 'Milligan is the Great God to all of us' John Cleese 'The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard 'That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man' Stephen Fry Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show writer and performer, before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary Goon Show. Until his death in 2002, he had success as on stage and screen and as the author of over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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