# Goodbye Soldier

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- Book: [Goodbye Soldier](https://www.bookquiver.com/spike-milligan/goodbye-soldier) ([Goodbye Soldier.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/spike-milligan/goodbye-soldier.md))
- Authors: [Spike Milligan](https://www.bookquiver.com/spike-milligan)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4195-814-8
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2012-09-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'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 ...