Both a "recension" (Waugh before his death excised some of the
original material) as well as a one-volume publication of the World
War II trilogy - Men at Arms (1952) Officers and Gentleman (1955)
and Unconditional Surrender (1961) which Waugh thought of as
"obituary of the Roman Catholic Church in England." Some critics,
Malcolm Muggeridge for instance, considered this ironic, absurd,
affecting (and autobiographical) portrait of a middle aged man at
war his finest achievement. (Kirkus Reviews)
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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