Rommel? Gunner Who? A Confrontation in the Desert is volume two of Spike Milligan's outrageous hilarious legendary War Memoirs' Keep talking Milligan I think I can get you out on Mental Grounds'' That's how I got in sir'' Didn't we all' The second volume of Spike Milligan's legendary recollections of life as a gunner in World War Two sees our hero into battle in North Africa
- eventually First there is important preparation to be done extensive periods of loitering (' We had been standing by vehicles for an hour & nothing had happened but it happened frequently') psychological toughening (' If a man dies when you hang him keep hanging him until he gets used to it') & living dangerously ('no underwear!') At last the battle for Tunis is upon them' 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