Peace Work
- Author Spike Milligan
- Narrator Spike Milligan
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 7 hours and 52 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Autobiography: general, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Humour, Memoirs, Second World War.
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What to expect
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Peace work, written and read by Spike Milligan.
'I had not informed my parents of my return, I wanted it to be a lovely surprise; it was, for me, they were away ...'
The seventh and last volume of Spike Milligan's memoirs sees our hero returning from war and Italy ... but to what? Aside from shooting large, inaccurate guns at Germans, all he has done for five long years is blow a trumpet, tell rude jokes and write and perform sketches for the entertainment of bored and murderous soldiers - who on earth is going to pay a civilian to do more of that? From the giddy heights of Hackney Empire to a Zurich Freak Show and beyond, Spike makes his way through the backwaters of showbiz, first as band musician then as one-man wild-act and eventually in the company of a group of like-minded comedians called Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers. They decide to call themselves The Goons...
Critics Review
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The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read
Sunday Express -
Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics … throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes
Daily Mail -
Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar
Sunday Times -
Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense
Guardian -
Milligan is the Great God to all of us
John Cleese -
The Godfather of Alternative Comedy
Eddie Izzard
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