Penguin Hardback Classics: Sword of Honour

Name: Penguin Hardback Classics Sword of Honour
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SKU: 9780241585320
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Evelyn Waugh

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h197 x 121mm - 912pg

Published:

27 Oct 2022 UK

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9780241585320

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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.

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903, second son of Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. He was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). Waugh travelled extensively and also wrote several travel books, as well as a biography of Edmund Campion and Ronald Knox.

Status:	Active
ISBN-13:	9780241585320
Published:	27 Oct 2022
Published In:	United Kingdom
Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Publisher:	Penguin Books
Format:	Hardback
Height:	197mm
Width:	121mm
Spine:	40mm
Weight:	750g
Pages:	912

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