Goodbye Soldier
Author(s): Spike Milligan
'My namer is Maria Antonoinetta Fontana, but everyone call me Toni. I'm Spike', sometimes known as stop thief or hey you.'Yeser, I know'. The sixth volume of Spike Milligan's off-the-wall account of his part in World War Two sees our hero doing very little soldiering. Because it's 1946. Rather, he is now part of the Bill Hall Trio - a 'Combined Services Entertainment' inflicted on unsuspecting soldiers across Italy and Austria - and is largely preoccupied with the unbearably beautiful ballerina, Ms Toni Fontana ('Arghhhhhhhhh!'). But he must enjoy it while he can before he is demobbed and sent home to Catford - so he does...
Product Information
Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show writer and performer, before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary Goon Show. Until his death in 2002, he had success as on stage and screen and as the author of over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 202.0
- : 31 August 2012
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Spike Milligan
- : Paperback
- : 288