
Peace Work
$30.95
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
24 July 2012
Summary
Peace Work: Spike Milligan’s Hilarious Homecoming
Reissued for the first time since its original publication, Peace Work is Volume Seven of Spike Milligan’s outrageous and legendary War Memoirs.
”‘I had not informed my parents of my return, I wanted it to be a lovely surprise; it was, for me, they were away …’”
The seventh and final volume of Spike Milligan’s memoirs sees our hero returning from the war and Italy… but to what? Aside from shooting large, inac…
Book Details
ISBN-13: | 9780241958155 |
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ISBN-10: | 0241958156 |
Series: | Spike Milligan War Memoirs |
Author: | Spike Milligan |
Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Number of Pages: | 240 |
Edition: | 7th |
Release Date: | 24 July 2012 |
Weight: | 174g |
Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read
The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read * Sunday Express *Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics … throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes * Daily Mail *Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar * Sunday Times *Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense * Guardian *Milligan is the Great God to all of us – John CleeseThe Godfather of Alternative Comedy – Eddie IzzardThat absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man – Stephen FryManifestly a genius, a comic surrealist genius and had no equal – Terry WoganA totally original comedy writer – Michael Palin
About The Author
Spike Milligan
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 on stage and screen and as the author of over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children’s stories.
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