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Where Have All the Bullets Gone?
(1985)(A book in the War (and Peace) Memoirs series)
A non fiction book by Spike Milligan
Memoirs Vol.5. Year Published -1985
His life in the ranks and file during WWII.
Despatched from the front line to psychiatric hospital, and from there to a rehabilitation camp - for bomb happy soldiers - in Afragola, Spike enters a period of khaki limbo away from active service which offers the chance to regroup forces in his own private war against melancholy. As ever, music, zany humour and a little help from his friends - including one, Harry Secombe, a liggle myopic blubber of fat from Wales whom he encounters in Italy - carry him through to his first stage of appearances and on, as history knows and volume 6 will tell, to fortune, overdraft, VAT, Income Tax, mortgages, accountants, solicitors, house agents and so on.Littered with uncensored excerpts from his letters, diaries and documents of the time, Where Have All the Bullets Gone? keeps up the Milligan offensive against the brass hats and their flood of official memoirs with its Tommys eye view of the war. A latterday Good Soldier Schweik, his own brand of goonish and macabre humour amuse and at the same time express the awful bloodiness of war, the unthinking courage of those who fought in it and the flavour of the almost hysterical humour that helped carry Spike and many others through their worst moments.
His life in the ranks and file during WWII.
Despatched from the front line to psychiatric hospital, and from there to a rehabilitation camp - for bomb happy soldiers - in Afragola, Spike enters a period of khaki limbo away from active service which offers the chance to regroup forces in his own private war against melancholy. As ever, music, zany humour and a little help from his friends - including one, Harry Secombe, a liggle myopic blubber of fat from Wales whom he encounters in Italy - carry him through to his first stage of appearances and on, as history knows and volume 6 will tell, to fortune, overdraft, VAT, Income Tax, mortgages, accountants, solicitors, house agents and so on.Littered with uncensored excerpts from his letters, diaries and documents of the time, Where Have All the Bullets Gone? keeps up the Milligan offensive against the brass hats and their flood of official memoirs with its Tommys eye view of the war. A latterday Good Soldier Schweik, his own brand of goonish and macabre humour amuse and at the same time express the awful bloodiness of war, the unthinking courage of those who fought in it and the flavour of the almost hysterical humour that helped carry Spike and many others through their worst moments.
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