Spike is cheerfully insubordinate, and he is not terribly fond of the idea of having to go off and kill people, even if they are Germans. Most of the story is lighthearted after all, the movie is about what happened to him in training, not in the time he would later spend in North Africa and Italy.

Young Spike-who was bipolar-is not the best fit for military discipline, and while this movie doesn't quite have a plot, it is a series of amusing vignettes about the controlled lunacy that is the British Army. To be specific, he is in the bombardiers. Only on that fateful night, dodging the draft isn't clever anymore, and Spike ends up actually joining the army. One Terence 'Spike' Milligan (Jim Dale) has been dodging the draft so he can continue to play in a dance band.

But that made fun of Abbott and Costello a lot more than it did the US military, and that's the difference. Abbott and Costello spent a lot of time in uniform. I mean, there have been American comedies on the subject, true. But maybe all that is why the British have more of a knack for making comedies which show the follies of war and the average soldier. If it hadn't, the UK would have been invaded long before we got into the war. I agree that it is the height of arrogance for Americans to go one about how they'd all be speaking German if not for us-leaving aside that English is in fact a Germanic language already, they're never thinking about Lend-Lease when they say it, and Lend-Lease had a lot more to do with British survival as an independent nation than the US Armed Forces did. I don't mean that they don't fight as hard as Americans. I think the British take their wars less seriously. Size: 12mo - over 6¾' - 7¾' tall.And Featuring Spike Milligan as Spike Milligan's Father Four soft cover books in the 'War (and Peace) Memoirs' Check out the scans. His themes ranged from environmental issues to the war, from nostalgia to depression, and his prolific output covers some of the most evocative events of the twentieth century, in a style both twistedly comic and harrowingly honest.' Books are: (War (and Peace) Memoirs) Vol 1 - Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall / Vol 2 - Rommel? Gunner Who? / Vol 3 - Monty: His Part in My Victory / Vol 7 - Peace Work. Four (4) soft covers (roughly) 7' by 4 1/2' (inches), flat spines, clean tight square & true, 144,208, 127, 239 pages with b & w photos and drawings through-out, 'Monty' is in Very Good condition with spine crease and toning to inside covers, the other 3 are in Very Good Plus or better, with one having an ink name on inside front cover & faint if any edge wear.'When Spike Milligan died in 2002, he left behind one of the most diverse legacies in British entertainment history - as well as a legion of devoted fans and admirers. # 012265 - The scans you see are the books you get.

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