October 2010 Guest Editor Juliet Gardiner on Sword of Honour...
I laugh out loud so much that I hardly dare read Evelyn Waugh’s wartime trilogy Sword of Honour in public places. Partly based on Waugh’ own war experience the novels follow the unheroic career of the hapless Guy Crouchback of the Royal Corps of Halbadiersin his tangles with military bureaucracy.
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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.
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The Sword of Honour was written by Evelyn Waugh, Angus Calder and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
The Sword of Honour has 694 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Classics series
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