About this title: 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.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown, Boston
Date Published: 1955
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. 339 p. 20 cm. Sequel to Men at arms. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Little, Brown, and Co.
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780316926300ISBN:0316926302
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 339 p. Audience: General/trade. Price sticker on back cover. Some minor wear. Picture on cover may be different than one shown. read more
Description: Fair. Purchasing this DVD supports the North Central Regional Library. Thriftbooks and NCRL have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Library ID found on DVD and case. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. 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. 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. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780316926300ISBN:0316926302
Description: Book is in good sellable condition. May have some writing and shelf wear. Buy with confidence, if I wouldn't buy it, I won't sell it! 0316926302. 0.9 x 7.76 x 5.03 Inches; 352 pages. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Back Bay Books, Boston
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780316926300ISBN:0316926302
Description: First Edition thus: First Printing: Illustrated Wraps, SoftCover! 8vo., 339 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 ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780316926300ISBN:0316926302
Description: Very Good. Book Sticker removal scar on cover. No spinal creasing. No store stamps. Line drawn across bottom page edges. Slight edgewear. read more
Binding: Trade PB
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780316926300ISBN:0316926302
Description: Very Good. Remainder 1983 Trade PB. 339 pgs. Remainder mark, spine minor chip & crease, & diag crease front cvr. Int. exc. cond., no marks, text clean, & binding tight. Arguably a classic. 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. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin, Harmondsworth
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780140021219ISBN:0140021213
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Binding good. Sturdy. Clean text. Pages tanned. Generalized wear tro cover. Name of previous owner on 1st pg. 248p.; 18 cm. Audience: General/trade. Originally published: London: Chapman & Hall, 1955. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Date Published: 1955
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Hardcover; First Edition; Good condition; Printed Text VG; two small tears at top DJ edge taped; price clipped; 339 p. (shelf G153); read more
Description: FINE-. The Little, Brown Book Bag series of Waugh's novels. Excellent condition, clean, straight, bright. A LANDS AWAY SALE BOOK. 2000, Little, Brown trade paperback, 1st printing, 339 pp. ISBN 0316925302 read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780316926300ISBN:0316926302
Description: Very Good. Text pages clean & tight with no markings or highlighting. Cover different from one shown & has scattered scratches & slight corner crease. Rermainder mark on bottom. Second volume of Waugh's trilogy "Sword of Honor". Very readable copy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780316926317ISBN:0316926310
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. Cloth over boards. 339 p. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Co., Boston
Date Published: 1955
Description: Fair. No Jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. X-Library with normal flaws...The hard cover has fade and damage to the top of the spine.....Yellowing pages...........We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by. read more
In many ways this is very similar to the previous book about Guy Crouchback of the Halberdiers: soldiers being resigned to the comic ineptitude of their commanders and all sorts of intriguing characters.
However, this volume has more about the tactics and experience of war, so that I did slightly lose track in places (despite all the historical footnotes) and less outright comedy, less of life back home, less Catholic angst (less Catholicism altogether) etc.
*** SPOILERS FOLLOW ***
The loucheness in Alexandria was good, and accidental heroics of blowing up a railway in occupied France because they failed to find the Channel Island they were looking for were fun, but overall, I enjoyed it less.
"The social rules applying to gentlemen may transfer to training camp, but they don't always transfer to the battlefield. The most random mishaps occur, nothing goes as planned, sometimes there isn't any plan, at other times the plan is really stupid, and gentlemen don't always behave like gentlemen. The main point of the book (at least as far as I can tell) gets summed up in the main character's mind as he is convalescing from a traumatic experience during the British withdrawal from Crete: "He had a sense, too, that all war consisted in causing trouble without much hope of advantage." As usual, Waugh makes this point with a lot of subtle humor. Some of it too subtle for me to understand, no doubt."
"Better than Men-at-arms, the preceding book in the series. However, Officers and Gentlemen cannot decide whether it wants to be serious comedy, serious farce, or serious satire. Of course, the three are hardly mutually exclusive, but O&G only manages to perform rather adequately in each area.
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