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. "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.
- ISBN10 0316216690
- ISBN13 9780316216692
- Publish Date 11 December 2012 (first published 6 September 2002)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Little, Brown & Company
- Imprint Back Bay Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 800
- Language English