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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

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.