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Literarie: Mussolini: My Part In His Downfall

A list of 91 words by bilby.

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Bits from the predictably odd and chaotic Spike Milligan book of this title. He writes in diary-style about his service in the British Army's World War II campaign in Italy.
"I admit the way I present it may seem as though my type of war was impossible and all a figment of a hyperthyroid imagination, but that's the way I write. But all that I wrote did happen, it happened on the days I mention, the people I mention are real people and the places are real."
- foreword.
There is some very sloppy grammar and inconsistent spelling in this book. Either the editor wished to preserve Milligan's idiosyncrasies or there was none.

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  • yarb I picked it up 2ndhand around August time, read it a couple of months ago on a plane, marvellous. Shocked to learn it was one of four; no-one ever mentions the other three. Nov 25, 2009

  • bilby Bravo yarbo! I'll have to finish this list one day soon :-7 Nov 25, 2009

  • yarb Dear Spike,
                        I realise you weren't always happy in Italy
    (not that you helped matters with some of those puns),
    but you didn't half write about it wittily,
    the mud, your mates, and the guns.

    Sometimes when people talk about their time at war,
    it's all The Last Post or For He's a Jolly Good Feller,
    but if there's one thing you're not, it's a bore
    (and nor are Von Grimmelshausen or Joseph Heller). Nov 25, 2009