<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The first volume of Evelyn Waugh's masterful trilogy about war, religion, andpolitics.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>"An eminently readable comedy of modern war" (<i>New York Times</i>), <i>Men at Arms</i> is the first novel in Evelyn Waugh's brilliant Sword of Honor trilogy. </b><br>Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees all the trimmings but none of the action. And his first campaign, an abortive affair on the West African coastline, ends with an escapade that seriously blots his Halberdier copybook.<br><i>Men at Arms</i> is the first novel in Waugh's brilliant Sword of Honor trilogy recording the tumultuous wartime adventures of Guy Crouchback ("the finest work of fiction in English to emerge from World War II" --<i>Atlantic Monthly</i>), which also comprises <i>Officers and Gentlemen </i>and<i> Unconditional Surrender.</i><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>The first volume of Evelyn Waugh's masterful trilogy about war, religion, and politics.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom Time called "one of the century's great masters of English prose," wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited, were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.
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