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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.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Sword of Honour
• Author: Evelyn Waugh
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 912
• EAN: 9780141184975
• ISBN: 0141184973
• ID: 04027012
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 618 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 130 × 34 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. March 2001

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