Waugh'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.
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ISBN | 9780241585320 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | FICTION / War & Military, Second World War fiction, Second World War fiction, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / World Literature / England / 20th Century, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Fester Einband |
Verlag | Penguin Books |
Jahr | 20221027 |
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