Спайк Миллигэн - автор 35 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Чашка по-английски, Пакун, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
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«Пакун» — комический роман Спайка Миллигэна, впервые опубликованный в 1963 году. Заваруха происходит в 1920-х годах в глухой ирландской невсамделишной деревне Пакун, и приключается она из-за разделения Ирландии: новая граница, спасибо бестолковости Пограничной комиссии, проходит прямо через деревню, в результате чего часть ее оказывается в Свободном Ирландском государстве, а часть — в Север...
In this, the first of Spike Milligan's uproarious recollections of life in the army, our hero takes us from the outbreak of war in 1939 ("it must have been something we said"), through his attempts to avoid enlistment ("time for my appendicitus, I thought") and his gunner training in Bexhill ("there was one drawback. No ammunition") to the landing at Algiers in 1943 ("I closed my eyes and fac...
"It's all over, von Arnheim has surrendered and he's very angry." "This could mean war..." The third volume of Spike Milligan's laugh-a-line account of life as a gunner in the Second World War resumes on the eve of victory in North Africa. Now Britain's looniest war hero must combat some of the direst threats a soldier has ever faced: boredom ("Christ, I just thought of...
The story is based on the lives of Spike Milligan's own parents and of other members of his family. Set in the late Victorian era and illustrated with photographs from the family albums, it describes their life in India.
А voice is calling across the land, "Bombardier Milligan." "Bombardier 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 the Second World War begins as he and his regiment land in sunny Italy in 1943 ("The ship touched the beach very gently,...
With his lightning-quick wit, unbridled creativity and his ear for the absurd, Spike Milligan revolutionized British comedy, leaving a legacy of influence that stretches from Monty Python's Flying Circus to the work of self-confessed acolytes such as Eddie Izzard and Stephen Fry today. Throughout his life Milligan wrote prolifically: scripts, poetry and fiction, as well as several volumes ...