Adolf Hitler by Spike Milligan
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Adolf Hitler
- My Part in His Downfall
- By: Spike Milligan
- Narrated by: Spike Milligan
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
About this listen
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 appendicitis, 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.
©2015 Spike Milligan (P)2015 Penguin Audio
Iain Dall
Timeless
I originally read Spike’s book back in the mid 70’s. But listening to it this time, with Spike actually narrating, still elicits a good laugh. Actually just hearing the mirth in Spikes voice building before the delivery make the laughter totally uncontrollable.
Juy Hepner
“A Canadian poured a beer in my saxophone”
This is a true depiction of so many characters at the beginning of the war seen through Pickwickian eyes of a man who finds the goodness in the absurdity of life. Whenever I get depressed I listen to Spike he shows me how to laugh again. There are also subtle allusions to the darker sides of war but he deliberately suppresses despair and marches on, drinking and playing jazz and laughing at fart jokes. If I had to go to war I’d love to be stuck in a trench with Spike.