a little life
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brideshead revisited
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commandos
crete
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daniel craig
decline and fall
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hebrides
in wartime
literary fiction
martin laird
men at arms
military
military history
resentment
scoop
second world war
sword of honour
the island
vile bodies
war
war fiction
whisky
william boyd
world war 1
world war 2
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Product details
- ISBN 9780141184678
- Weight: 200g
- Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2001
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The second volume of Waugh's masterful trilogy, Sword of Honour
Guy Crouchback is now attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and HM forces have to show respect for the laird. But the comedy of Mugg is followed by the bitterness of Crete.
Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.
