Goodbye Soldier cover art

Goodbye Soldier

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Goodbye Soldier

By: Spike Milligan
Narrated by: Spike Milligan
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Goodbye Soldier, written and read by Spike Milligan.

"My name 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....

©2016 Spike Milligan (P)2016 Penguin Audio Entertainment & Celebrities Military & War Performing Arts Celebrity Funny Military Comedy Italy

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Peace Work cover art
'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?' cover art
The Bible According to Spike Milligan cover art
The Goon Show Compendium Volume One: Series 5, Part 1 cover art
Spike Milligan in His Own Words cover art
Thinking Sideways cover art
Rambling Man cover art
The Front Seat Passenger cover art
Izzy's War cover art
The Last 100 Years (give or take) and All That cover art
Beyond Our Ken: The Collected Series 1-4 cover art
Listen to Les cover art
What Tomorrow Brings cover art
Adolf Hitler cover art
The Goon Show Compendium Volume Nine: Vintage Goons cover art
The Goon Show Compendium Volume Three: Series 6, Part 1 cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
beautiful wonderful Spike at his best ! long reign the eternal king of the goons!!

wonderful memories from the king of the goons

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Having listened to the previous volumes yes there’s a sound issue with the recording I find this is helped by playing at 1.5x speed which takes spike back to being full of energy rather then being full of shit

Sound issues

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Working my way through the series, enjoying them all. Got to this one and it sounded different. I think the timing is wrong. Once I started to listened at 1.25x speed it sounded more like the others.

Listen at 1.25x speed for best results

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Made me laugh though-out & cry at the end beautiful I felt like his best mate

Beautiful

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
this was one of his best books, was laughing all the way through next one now

brilliant and funny

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Spike's age and declining health all too apparent in this reading. Somewhat sad. still good.

I'll finish with this one.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
In this the 6th book as he reads he is I am sad to say struggling why I’m not sure why. he was a great man he’s passing has made the world a much bleaker and sadder place.

Spike was a geniuses I bought all he’s books.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Yes he’s old, yes sone jokes are now a bit off, but Spike’s war diaries remain a lense into the life if an ordinary bloke’s experience of war. Except, of course, Spike is extraordinary. His delight at his own jokes is infectious, his sorrow at lost love heartbreaking. And sprinkled throughout are insights into the human condition. Ignore the negatives, Spike remains a precious presence.

Tip - speed it to 1.1

A delightful time capsule

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
To hear the end of war and demobbing story of Spike Milligan read by himself was interesting and insightful. I am left wondering what did happen to the family of his Italian girlfriend.

Insightful

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Well worth a listen about a man who we have seen on films and TV but did not no things he had been through

Good bye Soldier

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews