Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall (Spike Milligan War Memoirs)

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Another reason for reading this book from a more serious point of view is that so much of the humor is dated, insider and to a modern ear flat. This is a re-read for me; I think I read it for the first time in paperback about a decade ago, but when I saw the Scribd e-library had all seven volumes in audiobook format read by the man himself, I couldn't resist reading them again.

A shell from World War I is eventually found and they make strenuous attempts to fire it for practice. The film Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1972) was produced by Gregory Smith and Norman Cohen, and directed by Norman Cohen. The names, whether made up or real, are straight from a Waugh novel – Battery Sergeant-Major ‘Jumbo’ Day for example could easily have been a character in “Men at Arms”. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. Since my copy of Spike Milligan’s Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall is on Kindle and to get it out of the way there are some nice drawings throughout the book and they do not show well on a Kindle Viewer.Published in 1971, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall is the first volume of the Spike Milligan's idiosyncratic military memoir. It's like director Norman Cohen was influence by two then recent films, "MASH" and "Oh What A Lovely War", both anti war comic looks at war and what he should have done was a Carry On type of film. This book has laugh out loud lines on every page, and I would guess all the other volumes will have too. Like now I suppose but with the added knowledge that the person you were shagging might be dead tomorrow. In some ways I think Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, makes for a reasonable follow up to the serious Sword of Honor trilogy by Evelyn Waugh.

We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. The film is about Spike being drafted into the army at the beginning of WWII and covered his basic training. The fact there was a gun fight in a club and Milligan was the only one still playing; just one of the many funny anecdotes in this story. Simple yet effectively stirring and utterly believable because this was exactly how everybody felt in those days.There are lighter comic digs made at stiff-upper-lipped authority, the abysmal cooking, the futile marches and camping trails that only amount up to idleness, farce and trivial affairs. There are even darker moments towards the end, as the troops set out to sail to Algiers and realise, for the first time, the gruelling experience of bracing through gale at sea, seasickness and even unexpectedly gruesome accidents on the trail that leave them unnerved.