How I Won the War

[nice tight clean copy, minor shelfwear only, "The Mirisch Corporation" stamped on front endpaper; the jacket is only lightly edgeworn, but downgraded because of severe fading to spine (title is unreadable)]. "A super-hilarious comedy of military misadventure," a faux-WWII memoir likened in the jacket blurb to a "British 'No Time for Sergeants'," and further declared to be "right on target for readers who like Peter Sellers or Alec Guinness." Alas, when they made a movie out of it, they didn't get either one of those fellows but had to make do with Michael Crawford and John Lennon (the latter in an actual acting role, for the first and last time), and the resulting film proved to be an uncharacteristic low point for the director (Richard Lester) who was then riding high. (The "Mirisch Corporation" stamp inside this book notwithstanding, the Mirisches apparently had nothing to do with the production of the film.)

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Publisher: William Morrow & Company

Year: 1964

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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