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Evelyn Waugh''s masterful depiction of World War II, with an introduction by Martin Stannard

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.

''Marvellous ... one of the masterpieces of the century''
John Banville, Irish Times

Sword of Honour

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 29 March 2001
      ISBN-13 9780141184975
      978-0141184975
      ISBN-10 0141184973
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Evelyn Waugh''s masterful depiction of World War II, with an introduction by Martin Stannard

      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.

      ''Marvellous ... one of the masterpieces of the century''
      John Banville, Irish Times

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