"Rommel (Isis (Hardcover Large Print)) [LARGE PRINT] (Hardcover)

by Spike Milligan (Author) "If you read the first volume of this trilogy, you will know that in Jan. 1943 19 Battery 56th Heavy Rgt R.A. had arrived in..." (more)
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Product Description
This is the second volume of Mr Milligan's reminiscences of World War II. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author
Spike Milligan was born at Ahmednagar in India in 1918. He received his first education in a tent in the Hyderabad Sindh desert and graduated from there, through a series of Roman Catholic schools in India and England, to the Lewisham Polytechnic. He then plunged into the world of Show Business, seduced by his first stage appearance, at the age of eight, in the nativity play of his Poona convent school. He began his career as a band musician, but has since become famous as a humorous scriptwriter and actor in both films and broadcasting. Spike received an honorary CBE in 1992. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: ISIS Large Print Books; Largeprint edition (December 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1856951871
• ISBN-13: 978-1856951876
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #7,988,608 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazingly Funny, March 21, 2002

By	David Appleby (Northumberland, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rommel? Gunner Who?: A Confrontation in the Desert (Paperback)

This book written by a comedy genius was both marvellously funny and desperately sad at times. I thoroughly enjoyed the bit about the gun going over the edge

5.0 out of 5 stars Jokes, More Jokes, And Tragedy, March 15, 2006

By	Chris Ward (Costa Rica) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Rommel? Gunner Who?: A Confrontation in the Desert (Paperback)

Milligan can't help himself: he'd be making goony jokes while being eaten by a lion. Here, in the second volume of his war memoirs, he's typically rumbustious and full of bad puns and silliness right in the middle of fighting the war in Northern Africa. He explains the dreadful boredom of waiting for battle and the utterly unreal experience of battle itself: being strafed and bombed and shelled, with loved friends dying a few feet away. He never dwells on the tragedy of war, but you can tell that, thirty or forty years later, he still feels the devastation and loss amidst the japes and jibes.

This is a great war memoir. You really feel what he felt-- the confusion and misery and sometimes the giddy exhilaration of living when others died. You'll laugh out loud at his antics, and you'll see the simple bravery of the British Tommies in WWII. Recommended.

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful war memoir..., March 13, 2003

By	Lee E. "idlefingers" (Arkansas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rommel? Gunner Who?: A Confrontation in the Desert (Paperback)

A very quick and surprisingly engrossing book. ROMMEL is just as good if not better than its predecessor, Adolf hitler: My Part in His downfall. Milligan does a fantastic job of juggling the humor and the tragedy without overwhelming the reader with the events of the times. His sad nostalgia isn't as pronounced as it is in DOWNFALL, but it is there, as he does take time out from reminiscing to hammer out a paragraph about how he longs for the old days. His writing makes those who never experienced it long for it as well.