by Spike Milligan · Michael Joseph Ltd · tapa dura · ISBN 9780718135331
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«Peace Work» is the autobiography of Spike Milligan, published by Michael Joseph Ltd in hardcover (240 pages, in English).
Milligan continues his war memoirs with his return to civilian life as a jazz trumpeter in the Bill Hall Trio, performing from the Hackney Empire to a freak show in Zurich. The gray postwar Europe frames the narrative, which closes with his solo career and the first improvisations of The Goons with Bentine, Sellers and Secombe.
It is volume 7 of Spike Milligan's War Memoirs series; this book was originally published in 1991.
For readers interested in British comedy, the origins of The Goons and postwar memoirs.
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Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan was an Anglo-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor. The son of an English mother and Irish father, he was born in British India, where he spent his childhood before relocating in 1931 to England, where he lived and worked for the majority of his life.
