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  • Published: 19 October 2001
  • ISBN: 9780141186870
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $29.99

Unconditional Surrender

The Conclusion of Men at Arms and Officers and Gentlemen





The third book in Waugh's satirical wartime trilogy, Sword of Honour

Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former wife. Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer with the partisans, he finally becomes aware of the futility of a war he once saw in terms of honour.

  • Published: 19 October 2001
  • ISBN: 9780141186870
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $29.99

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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Praise for Unconditional Surrender

A maverick historian

The Atlantic

The greatest novelist of my generation

Graham Greene

Our time's first satirist is Evelyn Waugh. For thirty years his savagery and wit have given pleasure and alarm

Gore Vidal, The New York Times
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