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'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?'
Spike Milligan War Memoirs (Book 2)
- Author
- Spike Milligan
- Narrator
- Spike Milligan
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 4 February 2016
- Run Time
- 4 hours 15 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Penguin Presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Rommel? 'Gunner Who?' written and read by Spike Milligan.
'Keep talking, Milligan. I think I can get you out on Mental Grounds.''That's how I got in, sir.''Didn't we all.'
The second volume of Spike Milligan's legendary recollections of life as a gunner in World War Two sees our hero into battle in North Africa - eventually. First, there is important preparation to be done: extensive periods of loitering ('We had been standing by vehicles for an hour and nothing had happened, but it happened frequently'), psychological toughening ('If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it') and living dangerously ('no underwear!'). At last the battle for Tunis is upon them...
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Details
- Author
- Spike Milligan
- Narrator
- Spike Milligan
- Duration
- 4 hours 15 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 February 2016
- ISBN
- 9780241973196
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Memoirs, Humour, Second World War, Modern warfare, Autobiography: general, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Autobiography: historical, political and military
Synopsis
Penguin Presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Rommel? 'Gunner Who?' written and read by Spike Milligan. 'Keep talking, Milligan. I think I can get you out on Mental Grounds.''That's how I got in, sir.''Didn't we all.'The second volume of Spike Milligan's legendary recollections of life as a gunner in World War Two sees our hero into battle in North Africa - eventually. First, there is important preparation to be done: extensive periods of loitering ('We had been standing by vehicles for an hour and nothing had happened, but it happened frequently'), psychological toughening ('If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it') and living dangerously ('no underwear!'). At last the battle for Tunis is upon them...
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