Sword of honour / Evelyn Waugh.

[New ed.] / with an introduction and notes [by] Angus Calder.

London : Penguin, 2001.

xxxi, 694p. ; 20 cm.

This ed. originally published: 1999.
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxix-xxx).

Contents: Officers and gentlemen - Men at arms - Unconditional surrender.

Waugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is re-enacted in this story of Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman, commissioned during the Second World War. In action in Crete and Yugoslavia he discovers not heroism, but humanity.

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