Sword of Honour

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.>

Product details

• Authors: Evelyn Waugh
• Assisted by: Angus Calder (Introduction), Calder Angus (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9780241585320
• ISBN: 978-0-241-58532-0
• No. of pages: 928
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 197 mm x 56 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Biographical, Second World War fiction, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), FICTION / World Literature / England / 20th Century, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction