Sword of honour
| Title | Sword of honour
Unconditional surrender The End of the Battle |
|---|---|
| Author | Evelyn Waugh |
| Publication | Penguin |
| Size | 239p |
| Language |  ENG |
| ISBN | 0140021221 |
| Topics |
English fiction--War stories World War II (1939-1945)--Fiction |
| Notes | The Sword of Honour trilogy by Evelyn Waugh consists of three novels, Men at Arms (1952), Officers and Gentlemen (1955) and Unconditional Surrender (1961, published as The End of the Battle in the US), which loosely parallel Waugh's experiences in the Second World War. Waugh received the 1952 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Men at Arms. The trilogy is considered by many critics to be the finest novel series of the Second World War. After the end of the war Guy meets the daughter of another old Roman Catholic family and marries her. In Waugh's first version of the novel's conclusion, Guy and his second wife produce further children who are ironically to be disinherited by Trimmer's son. Waugh altered this ending to an uncompromisingly childless marriage in the revised text, after realising that some readers interpreted such a conclusion as hopeful. "No nippers for Guy," he clarified in a letter to Nancy Mitford. Even so, Waugh died in 1966 but the Penguin 1974 reprint he has two sons with (his wife) Domenica Plessington. [wikipedia] |
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