# 'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?'

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- Authors: [Spike Milligan](https://www.bookquiver.com/spike-milligan)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4195-810-0
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2012-09-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'Keep talking, Milligan. I think I can get you out on Mental Grounds.' 'That's how I got in, sir.' 'Didn't we all.' The second volume of Spike Milligan's legendary recollections of life as a gunner in World War Two sees our hero into battle in North Africa - eventually. First, there is important preparation to be done: extensive periods of loitering ('We had been standing by vehicles for an hour and nothing had happened, but it happened frequently'), psychological toughening ('If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it') and living dangerously ('no underwear!'). At last the battle for Tunis is upon them...