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Spike Milligan War Memoirs - 0 - ReadMe.txt
Spike Milligan War Memoirs
These are new and improved versions of the copies that have been circulating on newsgroups and the torrents but have been "re-mastered" to more closely resemble the layout of the books. This collection includes Peace Work which has not previously been available. I've made these PDFs available in two flavours - one without the audio book and one with. Why? Because.
Features:
Hyperlinks
Many place names have hyperlinks to Google Maps and Streetviews showing where they are and this has been done for as many place names as possible. Where a place has not been linked it is either because it has already been linked or the place cannot be found on any map. Spike may have made up the name, got the wrong place or it no longer exists. For example, Isonzo is a river in Yugoslavia not a border town, many of the Italian mountains/hills are not named on Google maps and although Mill Hill can be found on an old map I couldn't match the site of Worthingholm girl's school with a modern location. I think I found Robin's Post but the people who live there had asked Google to blur out the Streetview of the place so the house name plate could not be checked.
Also linked are some Italian translations, Google image searches and some YouTube videos which include:
A video showing which parts of the 'Hitler - My Part...' movie actually came from the book (the link is on the cover)
The Tunis Victory Parade
The eruption of Vesuvius
The Bill Hall Trio.
A couple of the photos that don't have captions contains links.
This Is Your Life
The 1973 episode of TIYL is available on YouTube and features many of the people who appear in the books. I've not linked to it in any of the PDFs mainly because I couldn't find anywhere that seemed to be the right place but it's out there and a simple search will find it. It features a brief snatch of the band playing 'The Boys From Battery D' which is really cool!
Google Earth
Attached are Google Earth .kmz files which show the major locations for each book. While the links in the text show each individual place, the GE files will give an overview. Also the 3D buildings are pretty cool, too! :-)
Audio book
The audio book version of these PDFs is the same as the normal version but with the audio book chapters included as attachments. Links to play each chapters are included alongside each chapter heading and can be played by double clicking on them. They will open in your own mp3 player.
Spelling
Spike's spelling mistakes have been corrected and the spelling has been re-anglisised from '-ize' to '-ise'.
Name changes
'Chaterjack' in 'Hitler' has been corrected to 'Chater Jack'
'Fontana' in 'Goodbye Soldier' has been corrected to 'Pontani'
Jimmy/Eddie Molloy has not been changed between 'Goodbye Soldier' and 'Peace Work' as I'm not sure which is the correct one but I strongly suspect it may be 'Eddie.'
Colonel Startling Grope is an obvious name change but I've left it as it is and the real name can be found with a simple internet search.
I hope you enjoy the multimedia experience I've made from these books as much I've enjoyed doing them. They have been a labour of love fo rme and I think they give a better understanding of the places where Spike went and situations he found himself in.
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