Of it's time. Funny most of the time with some poignant moments; a interesting viewpoint. ( )

Pokračování humorných příběhů z 2.světové války, kdy britská armáda operovala v severní Africe. ( )

Should be essential reading for explorers of the history of WWII, and indeed was for Modern European History 101 at the University of Western Australia which up until a few short years before the course was attended by fresh faced university students and desperate second chancers was the only university within 4,000 miles of anyone in Western Australia. Imagine studying Milligan as a text for WWII - memoirs. It's almost as unthinkable as having a whole course on Harry Potter. The thing is - and I admit I am going to cut and paste this review for the other books in the series - we knew people got killed in the war, hadn't we sat through "The World At War" in colour or black and white depending on how stingy your parents were in buying into the whole colour TV business. Therefore, spike Milligan is akin to Dad's Army but overseas, or Allo Allo but in English - Trueish, enjoyable and leading inevitably to the final event - Well the end of the war obviously, but more importantly, the establishment of the group of comedians and musicians who made up The Goon Show. ( )

This is the third book in Spike Milligan's war memoirs (volume 1; volume 2). Combat has now died down in Africa, and no one is ready to be shipped to a new field of combat yet. The troops are therefore getting bored. Suddenly the establishment recalls that Milligan can play the trumpet and the band reforms. Most of this book is spent being shuffled between army staging areas, and performing music. Regardless of little "happening", still an engaging read.

http://www.stillhq.com/book/Spike_Milligan/Monty_His_Part_in_My_Victory.html ( )

One of the finest comic minds of the 20th century encounters WWII.
In a sense, the war wins, but Spike gives survival of the boy from east London a 'damn good try. This is a comic romp, that more than many more earnest efforts, has really brought home the tragedy of war to me. From the moment of his drafting to the end of the war in Italy, the radio operator of an artillery battery gives us his honest take on the major tragedy of the century. Should be read by everyone, jingoists and pacifists alike.
This is volume three, and the Eighth Army gets ready to be flung into the invasion of Sicily from Tunis. ( )