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Sword of Honour (Penguin Modern Classics)

Waugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is superbly re-enacted in this story of Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman, commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45. High comedy - in the company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook or the denizens of Bellamy's Club - is only part of the shambles of Crouchback's war. When action comes in Crete and in Yugoslavia, he discovers not heroism, but humanity. Sword of Honour combines three volumes: Officers and Gentlemen, Men at Arms and Unconditional Surrender, which were originally published separately. Extensively revised by Waugh, they were published as the one-volume Sword of Honour in 1965, in the form in which Waugh himself wished them to be read.

Evelyn Waugh

Title : 9780141184975

ISBN : 9780141184975

Publisher : Penguin Classics UK

Pages : 912

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Pub date : Apr 4, 2024, 08:00 AM

C m s pub date : Apr 8, 2024, 08:00 AM

Length : 198

Width : 129

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