Sword of Honour Trilogy Men at Arms, (Paperback)

from ParadisePorch

Winner of the 1952 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Britain's oldest literary award, Men At Arms is the first part of Waugh's The Sword of Honour Trilogy , his look at the Second World War. It follows Guy Crouchback, the nearly-forty-year-old son of an English aristocratic family who manages to g...

from MizPurplest

This wasn't the book I thought I was going to read when I picked it up, and I had a hard time getting myself to keep going with it because it was so much more serious than what I was looking for.But I found that once I did pick it up, the dry, easy tone and the accessibility of the characters pro...

from rocketjk

This is a gently biting satire about the fading of the English gentry and about the absurdity of military life in general. Guy Crouchback is the last of his line, a once revered English family that traces it's ancestry back into the hazy mists of the middle ages. A kindly, yet (self-described) in...

from Dorritt

Few authors explore the juxtaposition of tragedy, reality and farce as frankly and yet compassionately as Evelyn Waugh. His everyman heroes - to include Crouchback, the central character of this tale - seem intuitively to understand and uncomplainingly accept that rather than representing points ...

from karl.steel

Well, it certainly makes one want to turn the pages quickly. Brig. Guy-Richie and Apthorpe, both of whom I know from the The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose (probably one of my 4 most delightful possessions, the others being English as She is Spoke, Pegasus Descending, and The Handy-Book of Literar...