Sword of Honour
- ISBN-10
- 0141909935
- ISBN-13
- 9780141909936
- Series
- Sword of Honour
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 736
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-05-31
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Author
- Evelyn Waugh
Description
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.
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