This is it… Part I HOW IT ALL STARTED September 3rd, 1939. PREFACE After Puckoon I swore I would never write another novel. There were the deaths of some of my friends, and therefore, no matter how funny I tried to make this book, that will always be at the back of my mind: but, were they alive today, they would have been first to join in the laughter, and that laughter was, I’m sure, the key to victory. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, ‘A terrible beauty’.
The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life, I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It wasn’t all fun, but as you will see, a lot of it was. Some of the revelations are very bawdy but these I have told exactly as they happened. I have used the simple language of the barrack room and used the normal quota of swearing. All the salient facts are true, I have garnished some of them in my own manner, but the basic facts are, as I say, true. Volume III will cover from my demob to my eventual return to England. Volume II will cover from going into action till VJ day. It will cover the time of my joining the Artillery till the time we landed at Algiers.
This book is the first volume of a trilogy. Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (Memoirs volume 1) (Non fiction) by Spike Milligan 1971 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am grateful to John Counsell for permission to quote from his book, COUNSELL’S OPINION and to the Director of the Imperial War Museum for permission to reproduce three photographs in the Museum’s possession.
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