Mussolini His Part in My Downfall is volume four of Spike Milligan's outrageous hilarious legendary War Memoirs A voice is calling across the land Bombardier Milligan Bombadier Milligan is dead I replied in a disguised voice The voice replied Then he's going to miss his breakfast The fourth volume of Spike Milligan's legendary account of his time in the army during World War Two begins as he & his regiment land in sunny Italy in 1943 (' The ship touched the beach very gently so gently I suspect it's not insured') After a bout of Sandfly Fever from which he soon recovers ('I'm ready to be killed again') our plucky hero is piddled on by a farm dog (' Mussolini's revenge?') before forging his way inland towards the enemy & the sound of guns (' We're getting near civilisation') where matters suddenly take a dark turn ('I was not really me any more') ' Desperately funny vivid vulgar' Sunday Times ' Milligan is the Great God to all of us' John Cleese ' The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard ' That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently A great man' Stephen Fry Spike Milligan was one of the greatest & most influential comedians of the twentieth century Born in India in 1918 he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa & Italy At the end of the war he forged a career as a jazz musician sketch-show writer & performer before joining forces with Peter Sellers & Harry Secombe to form the legendary Goon Show Until his death in 2002 he had success as on stage & screen & as the author of over eighty books of fiction memoir poetry plays cartoons & children's stories