History Literature / AdolfHitlerMyPartInHisDownfall

** Major 'Jumbo' Jenkins inverts this (in truth, a lot of Brits had their own version of this at the time) by challenging a downed American airman: "Who goes there? English, or German?" The airman's reaction is predictable.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Whenever Milligan gets a letter from Louise back in England, this is the result.

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* HappyPlace: Music/{{Jazz}} is this for Milligan, as one of the few things that he never mocks, parodies or otherwise ridicules. In one of the books' few totally serious lines:

* AllJewsAreCheapskates: Milligan has a tendency to mine this and other hoary stereotypes for laughs: for example, Gunner Shapiro in ''Rommel'' and Sgt Lewis in ''Bullets'' are both presented as being very money-conscious (although in other respects they're sympathetic characters, especially Lewis, who Spike forms a friendship with.)

* AnachronismStew: In ''Mussolini'', when Spike is aboard a ship and they're preparing to invade Sicily--so, in 1943--he's given a tour of the engine room, where he's told "These are the Whackers who do the engines." "Ah," Spike replies, "the famous Do-Whacker-dos." This references "Do-Wacka-Do", a 1965 song by Roger Miller.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: After a particularly brutal attack by the Germans, a shaken Milligan enters the OP and says bluntly to Lt Walker "I've never drunk whisky but if you've got some I'd bloody well like some." Walker is taken aback by Milligan's lack of due respect for an officer, but on seeing what state Milligan is in, he says nothing and silently hands over the bottle.

* TheNeidermeyer: Major Evan Jenkins, who's uptight, obsessed with appearance over performance, and vindictive when he perceives that Milligan is more popular than he is.

* StandardHollywoodStrafingProcedure: Milligan described what it was to be a British Army recruit in the summer of 1940, when a German invasion was expected daily. His unit was based in Sussex, on the invasion coast; Milligan describes how one day on parade, a German aircraft arrived and found an entire battery on parade. The BF109 then overflew the assembled soldiers and strafed them. Milligan, like most of the recruits, didn't wait for the RSM to dismiss the parade, but ran for whatever cover they could find, all except for their commanding officer, Major Chater Jack, who refused to run for cover but remained standing out there. As the plane flew off, Chater Jack took out his cigarette case and unhurriedly lit a cigarette, and as his men sheepishly emerged from cover, he reformed the parade and addressed them all:

* StandardHollywoodStrafingProcedure: Milligan described what it was to be a British Army recruit in the summer of 1940, when a German invasion was expected daily. His unit was based in Sussex, on the invasion coast; Milligan describes how one day on parade, a German aircraft arrived and found an entire British regiment on parade. The German then overflew the assembled soldiers and strafed them. Milligan, like most of the recruits, didn't wait for the RSM to dismiss the parade, but ran for whatever cover they could find. He reports that incredibly, the German pilot had failed to hit ''any'' of the seven hundred men on parade. Even more incredibly, the Commanding Officer had refused to run for cover but had remained standing out there, lighting a cigarette and daring the German. As his men sheepishly emerged from cover, he reformed the parade and addressed them all.
-->Well done, gentlemen. You realise you did the right thing and I the wrong?