The Sword of Honour Trilogy: Men at Arms, Officers and - Softcover

Waugh, Evelyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140182519 ISBN 13: 9780140182514

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1991

Synopsis

The story of Guy Crouchback, whose career as an officer in the royal corps of Halberdiers is chequered and strewn with blunders and botched encounters. It is also rich in such indelibly funny characters as Colonel Ritchie-Hook and Apthorpe.

About this title

About the Author:

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies, Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0140182519
• ISBN 13: 9780140182514
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576