{"product_id":"modern-classics-sword-of-honour-evelyn-waugh-9780141184975","title":"Modern Classics Sword of Honour","description":"Evelyn Waugh's masterful depiction of World War II, with an introduction by Martin Stannard\nWaugh'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.\n'Marvellous ... one of the masterpieces of the century'\nJohn Banville, Irish Times","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51525789450528,"sku":"9780141184975","price":14.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780141184975.jpg?v=1785298938","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/modern-classics-sword-of-honour-evelyn-waugh-9780141184975","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}