About this title: The first volume of the author's "Sword of Honor" trilogy, which also includes OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN and THE END OF THE BATTLE. It portrays the events of the Second World War as seen through the jaded and melancholy eyes of Guy Crouchback, a middle-aged civilian who joins the Halberdiers, a venerable British army regiment, at the start of the fighting.
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Description: Very Good. 0316926205 Good looking trade sized paperback book! Some creasing of the spine & wear on cover/corners--nothing major. SMOKE FREE HOME! Do not settle for worn, torn, throwaways. Pay a few pennies more for a book that looks nice! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 1979-03-30
ISBN-13:9780316926201ISBN:0316926205
Description: Very Good. Very good paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Free Delivery Confirmation! Ships same or next business day! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780316926201ISBN:0316926205
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 352 p. Audience: General/trade. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Ex-library! Protective mylar covering. Withdrawn stamped in book front and back. Card holder may or may not be present. If card holder is removed it will generally leave glue stains and damage the back cover page. The dust jacket may also leave some glue stains if it is loose from the cover. No markings noted in text. Good: Copy has been read, but remains in good ... read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780316926218ISBN:0316926213
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. Pages are bright and unmarked. Binding is good. Cover and dust jacket show modest wear. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 319 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Back Bay Books, Boston
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780316926201ISBN:0316926205
Description: First Edition: First Printing: Illustrated Wraps, SoftCover! 8vo., 319 pages. "Evelyn Waugh was born in 1903 and was educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall. In 1945 he published Brideshead Revisited and he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1952 for Men at Arms. Evelyn Waugh died in 1966. " Publisher's remainder stripe on top edge, otherwise this book is unmarked and very good. No dust jacket as issued! A very attractive copy of this ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 1979-03-30
Description: Good. Save some $$$. Perfectly Good Reading Copy. Shelfwear from storage in box with other books. Great Copy. Ships Lightning Fast. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown, Boston
Date Published: 1961
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. 319 pgs in vg reading condition w/withdrawn on front endpaper and inside back cover, unused pocket inside back cover; cover has sticker on spine and back. read more
Description: Good. 0316926205 Standard used condition-Same quality you would find in your local bookstore. This is a new unread book that received the above wear during its handling. Has remainder mark. read more
Description: Softcover, octavo, VG in pictorial beige wraps. 309 pp. The story of a British officer Guy Crouchback and his struggle to find personal revitalization in a setting that makes a mockery of the individual. At 39 Guy has returned to England. He is too old to adjust to a desk job, so he gets one last assignment with Jewish refugees with whom he develops a rapport. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780316926201ISBN:0316926205
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Very Good. No Jacket Very Good. No DJ Issued Very good. No dust jacket as issued. 352 p.; 0.74" x 7.73" x 4.99". read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Good; Little, Brown and Company, Boston
Date Published: 1961
Description: In Very Good dust jacket; Reprint. Small 8vo 7½"-8" tall Ex-library; browning on page edges; discoloration on DJ spine; spine cocked; tape imprints on boards; 319 pages. read more
"I've found that reading Evelyn Waugh is pretty disorienting in the beginning parts of his novels, and this one is no exception. He jumps in with the characters as if the reader has already encountered them before (and in some cases, it seems that some of his characters *do* appear in multiple novels). Despite this, The End of the Battle is very good and feels very English. This is neither here nor there, but it falls in line with all of the other wartime-England books that I've read recently, only moreso."
""...things...turned out very conveniently for Guy." I am glad they did, because the war didn't quite pan out the way he expected it to. And I guess that was one of the points of the story--war is not glory and anyone who tells you it is, is trying to sell you something."
"Edmund Wilson has been quoted as stating that Waugh was a first-rate comic genius, but this book - like many of his others - makes it almost impossible to agree with that characterization. I was mainly struck with how casually the various officers shopped around for posts and then seemed to concern themselves mainly with accommodations and trying to find something to pass the time. No one seemed to have a position that was truly needed. It was almost as if it was enough each day if they talked for a few minutes to another officer about things of general interest. Being part of a force that was involved in a war had almost nothing to do with their lives. Anything like that would have been beneath them. I suspect that this is my last attempt at reading Waugh."
"Great text; want to read the preceding two volumes in the trilogy now; very neat description of life in London during WWII, and the bureaucracy of a military state."
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