Goodbye Soldier

Goodbye Soldier is volume six of Spike Milligan''s outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs.

''My namer is Maria Antonoinetta 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 World War Two sees our hero doing very little soldiering. Because it''s 1946. Rather, he is now part of the Bill Hall Trio - a ''Combined Services Entertainment'' inflicted on unsuspecting soldiers across Italy and Austria - and is largely preoccupied with the unbearably beautiful ballerina, Ms Toni Fontana (''Arghhhhhhhhh!). But he must enjoy it while he can before he is demobbed and sent home to Catford - so he does ...

''The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read'' Sunday Express

''Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar'' Sunday Times

''Milligan is the Great God to all of us'' John Cl