Evelyn Waugh: The Sword of Honour
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- Kustantaja: Penguin Books
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780141184975
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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.