Milligan, Spike. Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, London
: Penguin Books, 1971.
Comedic memoirs of war
are not so common, but the British comedian Spike Milligan always was a
trailblazer. The book is the first in a trilogy of war memoirs; a trilogy that
concluded after seven volumes. The tone is almost cartoonish (as odd as that
may seem in a written book) and like with Clive James Unreliable Memoirs, the
tone is set immediately: “After Puckoon I swore I would never write another
novel. This is it…” Despite this, the basic facts are often clear, and it is
clear that Milligan is not attempting to deceive, but only entertain.
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