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Sword of Honor
by Evelyn Waugh (Author) Format: Kindle Edition★★★★★
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Customers find this book scathingly funny, with one noting how it highlights the irony and lunacy of war. The novel features superbly crafted characters, and one customer describes it as the greatest work of 20th century English fiction. Customers appreciate its historical perspective on World War II, with one review highlighting its insight into the personal side of the conflict. Customers praise the writing style, with one noting the author's authority throughout, and find the book inspiring and meaningful.
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Evelyn Waugh's satiric World War II trilogy comprises the acclaimed novels Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, and Unconditional Surrender.This narrative spanning the war, based in part on Evelyn Waugh's own experiences as an army officer, is the author's surpassing achievement as a novelist. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, but then gradually finds the complexities and cruelties of war overwhelming. Though often somber, Sword of Honor is also a brilliant comedy, peopled by the fantastic figures so familiar from Waugh's early satires. The deepest pleasures these novels afford come from observing a great satirist employ his gifts with extraordinary subtlety, delicacy, and human feeling, for purposes that are ultimately anything but humorous. Read more