Adolf Hitler: My Part on His Downfall is volume One of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs. '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. 'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express 'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times 'Milligan is the Great God to all of us' John Cleese 'The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard 'That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man' Stephen Fry Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show writer and performer, before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary Goon Show. Until his death in 2002, he had success as on stage and screen and as the author of over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories.

Product Description: This is one in a series of renditions of classic works by Spike Milligan. The book recounts the adventures of a beautiful horse called Black Beauty, who bites, kicks, swears and enjoys drinking whisky.

An anthology of Spike Milligan's poems and stories for children. It includes: 'Silly Verse for Kids'; 'The Bald Twit Lion'; 'A Book of Milliganimals'; 'Unspun Socks From a Chicken's Laundry'; 'Sir Nobonk and the Terrible, Awful, Naughty, Nasty Dragon'.

Using previously unbroadcast original scripts by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens, 'The Goon Show' was recreated for one night at the Playhouse Theatre in London. Music was provided by the John Wilson Orchestra.

Presents a second collection of four zany episodes from the BBC's popular radio comedy program, in original broadcasts featuring the work of British comic actors as Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe.

The zany, no-holds-barred humor of the landmark BBC Radio comedy series, originally broadcast between 1951 and 1960, comes to life in a collection of four hilarious episodes featuring the antics of Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, and author Spike Milligan.

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Product Description: Spike Milligan tells his version of the D.H. Lawrence classic story of the lady who embarks on an affair with the gamekeeper in order to fulfil the physical side of her marriage to a paralyzed husband.

When Murphy wakes up one morning with the thickest of hangovers, the last thing he needs is to be whacked over the head with a frying pan by his wife. While he's knocked senseless, his mind trawls back through his misadventures in every area of his squandered life.

The author describes her journey through the Andes with her nine-year-old daughter and a mule called Juana. Together they clambered the length of Peru, from Cajamarca on the border with Ecuador, to Cuzco, the ancient Inca capital, over 1300 miles to the south. With only the most basic necessities to sustain them, their journey was marked by extreme discomfort, occasional danger and even the temporary loss of Juana over a precipice. Yet throughout it all, mother and daughter retained an unflagging sympathy for the perilous beauty and impoverished people of the Andes. Dervla Murphy's other travel books include "Muddling Through In Madagascar" and "Cameroon With Egbert".

Product Description: Spike returns to postwar London to resume his career as a band musician. His Trio tour Britain and their chance at fame comes when they are discovered and asked to appear in a freak show in Zurich. Fresh from success, they return to London where Spike pursues a solo career...read more

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