
Sword of Honour
by Evelyn Waugh
Title:
Sword of Honour
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
Series (if any):
Penguin Modern Classics
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
928 pages
Publisher:
TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale
ISBN-13:
9780141184975
EAN:
9780141184975
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
746
Dimensions (mm):
197 x 130 x 34
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Evelyn Waugh's masterful depiction of World War II, with an introduction by Martin StannardWaugh'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






























