'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert: Audiobook
Book 2 of the Spike Milligan War Memoirs series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the 'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert audiobook runs 4.3 hours unabridged, narrated by Spike Milligan (about 2.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 4.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day | 5 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 3 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 4.3 hours, it is shorter than 59% of the 8,856 Arts & Entertainment audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Spike Milligan War Memoirs
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 3.4 hours before it; books 1 to 7 run 40.4 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall | 3.4 hrs |
| 2 | 'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert | 4.3 hrs |
| 3 | Monty: His Part in My Victory | 2.2 hrs |
| 4 | Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall | 8.7 hrs |
| 5 | Where Have All the Bullets Gone? | 5.4 hrs |
| 6 | Goodbye Soldier | 8.5 hrs |
| 7 | Peace Work | 7.9 hrs |
More narrated by Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan narrates 40 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 222 hours in all.
About as long, on the Arts & Entertainment shelf
311 Arts & Entertainment audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert is book 2 of Spike Milligan's Spike Milligan War Memoirs series: a 4.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Spike Milligan, released February 4, 2016, on the Arts & Entertainment and Military (Biography & Memoir) shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 4.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Spike Milligan
- Released
- February 4, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Arts & Entertainment, Military (Biography & Memoir), Comedy
- Series
- Spike Milligan War Memoirs #2
- ISBN
- 9780241973196
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the 'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert audiobook?
'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert runs 4.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2.8 hours.
Is the 'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert audiobook free?
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Who narrates 'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert?
'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert is narrated by Spike Milligan.