Monty - His Part in My Victory

Informationen zum Autor A legendary and iconic figure, Spike Milligan was born at Ahmednagar in India in 1918. He received his first education in a tent in the Hyderabad Sindh desert and graduated from there, through a series of Roman Catholic schools in India and England, to the Lewisham Polytechnic. He then plunged into the world of Show Business, seduced by his first stage appearance, at the age of eight, in the nativity play of his Poona convent school. He began his career as a band musician, but became famous as a humorous scriptwriter and actor in both films and broadcasting. Over the course of his astonishing career, he wrote over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories. He was the creator, principal writer and performer of the infamous Goon Show, and went on to become one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Spike received an honorary CBE in 1992 and Knighthood in 2000. He died in 2002. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on 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 - up there in Valhalla, Monty's laughing fit to burst. Zusammenfassung Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on 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... up there in Valhalla, Monty's laughing fit to burst.

Product details

• Authors: J. Hobbs, S. Milligan, Spike Milligan
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.01.1978
• EAN: 9780140045031
• ISBN: 978-0-14-004503-1
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 181 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Spike Milligan War Memoirs
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, Autobiography: general, HISTORY / Military / World War II, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, HUMOR / Form / Essays, PERFORMING ARTS / Comedy, Humour, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Autobiography: arts & entertainment, Second World War, Performing arts: comedy, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Autobiography: arts and entertainment