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.
https://www.gandhi.com.mx/sword-of-honour1343368Sword of Honour<p>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.</p>
<p><em>Sword of Honour</em> combines three volumes: <em>Officers and Gentlemen</em>, <em>Men at Arms</em> and <em>Unconditional Surrender</em>, which were originally published separately. Extensively revised by Waugh, they were published as the one-volume <em>Sword of Honour</em> in 1965, in the form in which Waugh himself wished them to be read.</p>https://kbimages1-a.akamaihd.net/Images/28f272c9-a05d-4536-8fa5-e403e54d27fb/300/300/False/image.jpg340instock4143401874000https://www.gandhi.com.mx/media/catalog/product/2022-05-12T10:37:29+0000FIC004000Evelyn WaughEpub 2FIC004000