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Lieferstatus:	Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt)
Veröffentlichung:	Oktober 2022
Genre:	Romane, Erzählungen, Gedichte
	Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction / c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period) / FICTION / Biographical / FICTION / War & Military / FICTION / World Literature / England / 20th Century / Second World War fiction
ISBN:	9780241585320
EAN-Code:	9780241585320
Verlag:	Penguin Books
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 197 mm / B 127 mm / D 56 mm
Gewicht:	734 gr
Seiten:	928
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Inhalt:

Evelyn Waugh's masterful depiction of World War II, now in a beautiful hardback edition with a new Introduction by Martin StannardWaugh'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. 'Marvellous ... one of the masterpieces of the century'John Banville, Irish Times