Unconditional Surrender: The Conclusion Of Men At Arms And Officers And Gentlemen
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Small chips otherwise jacket is in good condition. Pages are clean and bright.
The final installment of Evelyn Waugh's celebrated Sword of Honour trilogy, Unconditional Surrender chronicles the disillusionment of Guy Crouchback as World War II draws to its bitter close, stripping away the last vestiges of his romantic idealism about the war's moral purpose. With biting satirical wit and profound melancholy, Waugh illustrates the chaos and absurdity of military bureaucracy, the cynical machinations of Allied politics, and the tragic fate of displaced persons in war-torn Yugoslavia. Guy's encounters with Jewish refugees and his complex relationship with his estranged wife Virginia sharpen the novel's central argument: that the war, far from being a crusade against evil, has merely enthroned new and equally sinister powers. Waugh writes with the authority of a veteran observer of human folly, balancing dark comedy with genuine moral seriousness in a way that elevates the trilogy to the ranks of the great English war novels. Unconditional Surrender stands as a masterful, elegiac conclusion to one of the twentieth century's most ambitious fictional examinations of faith, honor, and the cost of modern warfare.
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Format: Hardback
Published: 1961, Chapman & Hall
Genre: WW2
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Small chips otherwise jacket is in good condition. Pages are clean and bright.
The final installment of Evelyn Waugh's celebrated Sword of Honour trilogy, Unconditional Surrender chronicles the disillusionment of Guy Crouchback as World War II draws to its bitter close, stripping away the last vestiges of his romantic idealism about the war's moral purpose. With biting satirical wit and profound melancholy, Waugh illustrates the chaos and absurdity of military bureaucracy, the cynical machinations of Allied politics, and the tragic fate of displaced persons in war-torn Yugoslavia. Guy's encounters with Jewish refugees and his complex relationship with his estranged wife Virginia sharpen the novel's central argument: that the war, far from being a crusade against evil, has merely enthroned new and equally sinister powers. Waugh writes with the authority of a veteran observer of human folly, balancing dark comedy with genuine moral seriousness in a way that elevates the trilogy to the ranks of the great English war novels. Unconditional Surrender stands as a masterful, elegiac conclusion to one of the twentieth century's most ambitious fictional examinations of faith, honor, and the cost of modern warfare.