Sword of Honour

Omnibus ed

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Publisher's Synopsis

Evelyn Waugh's masterful depiction of World War II, now in a beautiful hardback edition with a new Introduction by Martin Stannard

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. 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

Book information

ISBN: 9780241585320
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Pub date:
Edition: Omnibus ed
DEWEY: 823.912
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 912
Weight: 726g
Height: 132mm
Width: 198mm
Spine width: 63mm