' The third volume of Spike Milligan's laugh-a-line account of life as a gunner in World War Two resumes on the eve of victory in North Africa. Now Britain's looniest war hero must combat some of the direst threats a soldier has ever faced - boredom ('Christ, I just thought of Catford'), a cold ('In this weather?' 'Yed.'), moving camp ('It's a sort of Brighton with camels'), relaxing on the beach ('Life was golden, and we were the assayers'), moving camp again ('We're already somewhere else'), a visit to Carthage ('It's terrible, it's like Catford') and a perilous encounter with the gloriously endowed Mademoiselle Villion ('"Help! massage", I said weakly'). Against the odds, they survive and are sent at last to Italy to be killed...
The 19th Battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb an aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery, that is; the aqueduct was very well dressed). Five hundred gunners try to dance with two girls and an old French matron…
Spike Milligan was an outstanding historical satirist. What makes his works different from other contemporaries is that he actually lived what he wrote about. Like greats, such as Hemingway, Milligan reports on the obscure and tangential elements of war, but in a fantastically humorous way.
" Monty . . . " is the third of four installments in Milligan's war biography trilogy. It is a bit shorter the than the other three but contains the same elements of history, humor, and observations. It, like the others, is easy to read in short segments. Each chapter is fairly self-contained.
If you are a fan of Monty Python, Joseph Heller, or Doug Adams, I highly recommend this work.
Monty. His Part In My Victory by Spike Milligan. Publisher Michael Joseph, London. First edition, 1976.
Hardback in original dustwrapper. 128 pages. The dustwrapper has some very slight creasing to the edges, the book itself is in excellent condition.
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