Modern Classics Sword of Honour
by Evelyn Waugh, Angus Calder (Foreword by)
ISBN-10: 0141184973
ISBN-13: 9780141184975
$18.82
Book Specs
Binding
Trade Paper
Publisher
Penguin Classic
Published on
Mar 29, 2001
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
8.50x5.43x2.13 Inches
Weight
1.59 Pounds
About the Book
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.