'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert

Spike Milligan

'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
25 July 2012
Pages
208
ISBN
9780241958100

‘Rommel?’ ‘Gunner Who?’: A Confrontation in the Desert

Spike Milligan

Reissued for the first time since publication, Volume Two of Spike Milligan’s outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs

‘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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