Rating: 5/5
Review:
A cracking read
This second volume of Spike Milligan's war memoirs is even better than the first, I think. It is just as funny and just as readable, but has far more real emotional and human content, and gives a wonderful insight into the life of a regular British soldier in the North Africa campaign.
The book tells the story from Spike's regiment embarking in England in 1942 to the fall of Tunis in April 1943. It is very well written; it is extremely funny, very evocative in description and very moving in places. You really do get a sense of life there, from the beauty of the landscape, the drudgery and boredom alleviated by humour (often vulgar) and the terror and dreadful consequences of battle. It's a book which keeps you entertained and laughing but from which you learn a lot, which will move you and which leaves you with much to think about.
I warmly recommend this - it's a cracking read.
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