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Informationen zum Autor Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) was born in London and educated at Oxford. He quickly established a reputation with such social satirical novels as DECLINE AND FALL, VILE BODIES and SCOOP. Waugh became a Catholic in 1930, and his later books display a more serious attitude, as seen in the religious theme of BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, a nostalgic evocation of student days at Oxford. His diaries were published in 1976, and his letters in 1980. Klappentext 'The hideous! then unfamiliar shriek of the air-raid sirens sang out over London.' Upper-class rogues! bohemians! dowagers! socialites! bureaucrats and delinquent evacuees prepare for England to change forever! in this hilarious and deadly serious 1942 satire on the 'phoney war'. Zusammenfassung 'The hideous, then unfamiliar shriek of the air-raid sirens sang out over London.' Upper-class rogues, bohemians, dowagers, socialites, bureaucrats and delinquent evacuees prepare for England to change forever, in this hilarious and deadly serious 1942 satire on the 'phoney war'.
