{"id":8512,"date":"2025-01-08T22:14:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/spike-milligan-mussolini-his-part-in-my-downfall-review-danecobain-com\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T22:14:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:14:05","slug":"spike-milligan-mussolini-his-part-in-my-downfall-review-danecobain-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=8512","title":{"rendered":"Spike Milligan \u2013 Mussolini: His Part in my Downfall [REVIEW] \u2013 DaneCobain.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-22191\">\n<div class=\"post-contents entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Title<\/strong>: Mussolini: His Part in my Downfall<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author<\/strong>: Spike Milligan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Type:<\/strong>\u00a0Non-Fiction<\/p>\n<p><strong>Page Count\/Review Word Count<\/strong>: 288<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong>\u00a03.5\/5<\/p>\n<p>This is part four in Spike Milligan\u2019s series of Second World War memoirs, which I\u2019ve always found to be super readable. Perhaps it helps that I\u2019m fascinated by the war, but I also love Milligan\u2019s writing style and his idiosyncratic sense of humour, which means that there\u2019s plenty here for me to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>As you can probably guess from the title, this book focusses specifically on Milligan\u2019s time in Italy, which wasn\u2019t the best for me because the Italian front is probably the area of the Second World War that I\u2019m the least interested in. With that said, it\u2019s more about the people and the effects of the war than about any particular incident, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that stood out to me in particular is the way in which Milligan is able to juxtapose humour with horror, often on the same page. He had some super moving lines where he talked about the effect that the war has had on young people, who are being forced to mature way too quickly. And of course, he also had a ton of stuff on the senselessness of it all.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t help wondering what Viktor E. Frankl would have made of Spike Milligan, because I think that Milligan\u2019s ability to find humour in even the toughest of situations tallies nicely with Frankl\u2019s thoughts on man and his search for meaning. Milligan certainly found meaning in humour throughout the war.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, this surprised me by being one of Milligan\u2019s better war memoirs, although they\u2019re all good and well worth a read.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/745307.Mussolini?ac=1&amp;from_search=true&amp;qid=fywEUVzoBb&amp;rank=1\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/745307.Mussolini?ac=1&amp;from_search=true&amp;qid=fywEUVzoBb&amp;rank=1\">Learn more about Mussolini: His Part in my Downfall.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<br class=\"clear\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Mussolini: His Part in my Downfall Author: Spike Milligan Type:\u00a0Non-Fiction Page Count\/Review Word Count: 288 Rating:\u00a03.5\/5 This is part four in Spike Milligan\u2019s series of Second World War memoirs, which I\u2019ve always found to be super readable. Perhaps it helps that I\u2019m fascinated by the war, but I also love Milligan\u2019s writing style and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[4306,7298,7296,7297,3341,3749,6475],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-8512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-danecobain-com","tag-downfall","tag-milligan","tag-mussolini","tag-part","tag-review","tag-spike"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spike Milligan \u2013 Mussolini: His Part in my Downfall [REVIEW] \u2013 DaneCobain.com - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=8512\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spike Milligan \u2013 Mussolini: His Part in my Downfall [REVIEW] \u2013 DaneCobain.com - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Title: Mussolini: His Part in my Downfall Author: Spike Milligan Type:\u00a0Non-Fiction Page Count\/Review Word Count: 288 Rating:\u00a03.5\/5 This is part four in Spike Milligan\u2019s series of Second World War memoirs, which I\u2019ve always found to be super readable. 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