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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 Second World War. 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.
In January 1946, the Penguin Classics list was launched with E. V. Rieu's translation of The Odyssey. The series now consists of over 800 titles including the best in English, American, European, classical and non-western literature and an extensive range of philosophy, religion, art, history and politics titles.
| ISBN: | 9780140189674 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Pub date: | 29 Apr 1999 |
| DEWEY: | 823.914 |
| DEWEY edition: | 21 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of pages: | 694 |
| Weight: | 441g |
| Height: | 198mm |
| Width: | 128mm |
| Spine width: | 27mm |
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