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  • Published: 5 January 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241585320
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 928
  • RRP: $45.00
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Sword of Honour





Evelyn Waugh's masterful depiction of World War II, now in a wonderful hardback edition

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.

  • Published: 5 January 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241585320
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 928
  • RRP: $45.00
Categories:

About the author

Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead, London, in 1903. He studied History at Hertford College, Oxford, but left without a degree. After a brief period as a teacher, he published his first book, a biography of the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in 1928. The same year also saw the publication of his first novel, Decline and Fall, which established his reputation. Further novels, including Vile Bodies (1930), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Brideshead Revisited (1945) were highly acclaimed. Waugh also wrote several travel books and short stories, and was a prolific journalist and book reviewer. Waugh died on Easter Sunday, 1966, at his home in Combe Florey, Somerset.

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