# Sword of Honour

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- Book: [Sword of Honour](https://www.bookquiver.com/evelyn-waugh/sword-of-honour) ([Sword of Honour.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/evelyn-waugh/sword-of-honour.md))
- Authors: [Evelyn Waugh](https://www.bookquiver.com/evelyn-waugh)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-497-5
- Pages: 928
- Published: 2024-04-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.