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SWORD OF HONOUR - EVELYN WAUGH GEBUNDEN

Evelyn Waugh's masterful depiction of World War II  now in a beautiful hardback edition with a
new Introduction by Martin StannardWaugh'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.'Marvellous ... one of the masterpieces of the
century'John Banville  Irish Times

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