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Mussolini

His Part in My Downfall

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

A voice is calling across the land, "Bombardier Milligan.""Bombadier Milligan is dead," I replied in a disguised voice.The voice replied, "Then he's going to miss his breakfast."

The fourth volume of Spike Milligan's legendary account of his time in the army during World War Two begins as he and his regiment land in sunny Italy in 1943 ('The ship touched the beach very gently, so gently I suspect it's not insured'). After a bout of Sandfly Fever, from which he soon recovers ('I'm ready to be killed again'), our plucky hero is piddled on by a farm dog ('Mussolini's revenge?') before forging his way inland towards the enemy and the sound of guns ('We're getting near civilisation'), where matters suddenly take a dark turn ('I was not really me any more') ...

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Notwithstanding the horror and misery of the war years, the recounting of his diary is full of great humour and really well read by SM (laughing at his own words at times). Thoroughly enjoyed it. And I’m not even British…

Wonderful humour! Wonderfully read!

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fantastic story and told so well. Spike gives a true sense of the 99% boredom that war entails, and brings it to life with his humour

Spike at his funniest and most vulnerable

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An interesting view of Spike Milligans war ,put over in a way that only he could

Very interesting

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It is a very funny but also moving account of war at the front . I thoroughly recommend this book

Extremely moving & funny as well

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Laugh so much at times I was crying, be warned try not to be driving.

It's quite sad at times with how Spike suffered with the shell shock.

great book

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