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Spike Milligan’s Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall

Spike Milligan was a comic genius feted both by disaffected Royals and student surrealists.

But beyond The Goons and more left-field TV shows, Milligan’s seven volumes of Second World War memoirs tapped into a mass readership who lapped up his scatter-gun array of anecdotes, asides and comic cuts from across the barricades.