Sword of honour

Author(s)

• Waugh, Evelyn
• Calder, Angus

Bibliographic Information

Sword of honour

Evelyn Waugh ; with an introduction and notes [by] Angus Calder

（Penguin twentieth-century classics）

Penguin, 1999

Note

First published : Chapman & Hall, 1965

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The story of Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman commisssioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during World War II. High comedy in the company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook is only part of the shambles of Crouchback's war. When action comes he discovers not heroism, but humanity.

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Details

• NCID: BA46074144
• ISBN:
  • 014018967X
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xxxi, 694 p.
• Size: 20cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 823.914
• Subject Headings:
  • BLSH : Great Britain. Army -- Military life
  • LCSH : World War, 1939-1945 -- Yugoslavia
  • LCSH : World War, 1939-1945 -- Greece -- Crete
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA07487461