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Adolf Hitler

My Part in his Downfall

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Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall written and read by Spike Milligan.

'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.

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I won these books as part of my school leavers achievement award - everybody asked for record tokens - back in 1984 and to hear these wise-cracking books read by their incredible author is just bliss, hearing him crack up at his own jokes is a delight and reminds me how much richer we were with a Spike around, brilliant.

You just don't get better

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I'm a huge fan of spike Milligan and this series of books is epic gets darker but never less funny

I listened to this book a LOT

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loved every minute of this book. from start to finish, typical spike humour.
warning, may cause sudden bouts of laughter in public !!

only spike

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The story is hilarious which makes the occasional sad parts all the more poignant. Spike Milligan seems to have enjoyed his part in the war but the book as a whole comes across as anti war.

Funny yet poignant

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There are moments when Spike is clearly reliving the experience and makes himself laugh too. BRILLIANT. Should be on the History syllabus.

Hilarious

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