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- 2024
- year of publication
- 928
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Softcover
- cover
- Publisher
- penguin_classics
- ISBN-13
- 978-01-4118-497-5
- EAN
- 9780141184975
- Publication date
- 2024-04-04
- Book
- Sword of Honour · 2 editions
The publisher on this 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.
