How I Won the War

'Well, Sergeant, here we go then', I said. 'Getting our chance at last of a good old crack at the Boche, eh...?' Ex-infantryman and reconnaissance officer, author and humorist Patrick Ryan is perhaps best remembered for this acerbically comic novel - first published in 1963 and quickly adapted into a 1967 feature film by Richard Lester, starring Michael Crawford and John Lennon. It is a satirical 'memoir' of the misadventures of the haphazard and notably naive Lieutenant Ernest Goodbody and his fellow fighting men of Twelve Platoon - Sergeant Transom, Corporals Hink, Globe and Dooley, Private Drogue et al - as they stumble ill-preparedly into the theatres of World War Two.

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Patrick Ryan

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• Autori: Patrick Ryan, Ryan Patrick
• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.03.2012
• EAN: 9780571290208
• ISBN: 978-0-571-29020-8
• Pagine: 256
• Dimensioni: 125 mm x 195 mm x 18 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Capolavori fino al 1945; Humorous fiction, Faber Finds; Military; Misadventures; Satire