Spike Milligan\"s publishing career began over forty years ago when Silly Verse for Kids was published in 1959. His poems were inspired by listening to his own children, and subsequently his grandchildren, and marvelling at the way they could invent new words or incorporate sound effects into their everyday language....

Silly Verse for Kids - a hilarious collection of silly poems by Spike Milligan! A collection of the absurd, ridiculous, sublime and characteristically anarchic verse from the brilliant Spike Milligan....

In 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. Through incompetence, dereliction of duty and sheer perversity, the border ends up running through the middle of the small town of Puckoon....

Эта книга — репринт оригинального издания, созданный на основе электронной копии высокого разрешения, которую очистили и обработали вручную, сохранив структуру и орфографию оригинального издания. Редкие, забытые и малоизвестные книги, изданные с петровских времен до наших дней, вновь доступны в виде печатных книг. ...

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....

\"Му namer is Maria Antoinetta Fontana, but everyone call me Toni.\" \"I\'m Spike, sometimes known as stop thief or hey you.\" \"Yeser, I know.\" The sixth volume of Spike Milligan\'s off-the-wall account of his part in the Second World War sees our hero doing very little soldiering. Because it\'s 1946....

\"I had not informed my parents of my return, I wanted it to be a lovely surprise; it was, for me f they were away...\" The seventh and last volume of Spike Milligan\'s memoirs sees our hero returning from war and Italy... but to what?...

Васк to those haunting days in Italy in 1944, at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, with lava running in great red rivulets down the slope towards us, and Jock taking a drag on his cigarette and saying, \"I think we\'ve got grounds for a rent rebate....

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....

\"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....

The second volume of Spike Milligan\'s legendary recollections of life as a gunner in the Second World War sees our hero in battle in North Africa - eventually....

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....

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....