{"product_id":"2026600003124-secondhand-men-at-arms-a-novel","title":"Men At Arms: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: No markings\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Facsimile DJ L.L.C. Boards - good with a faded spine and minor speckling. Binding - tight, and the text block is clean and sound throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sharp and satirical work of literary fiction, Men at Arms opens Evelyn Waugh's celebrated Sword of Honour trilogy, chronicling the early wartime misadventures of Guy Crouchback, a melancholy English Catholic gentleman who enlists in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers at the outset of World War II with romantic idealism in his heart. Waugh illustrates with biting wit and precise social observation how the realities of military bureaucracy, class absurdity, and human folly swiftly erode Guy's noble illusions about war and honor. The novel presents a cast of magnificently eccentric characters — none more memorable than the gloriously unhinged Apthorpe, whose obsession with a portable field latrine he calls his thunder-box becomes one of the great comic set pieces in twentieth-century British fiction. Written with Waugh's trademark dry irony and elegant prose, the narrative balances genuine pathos with devastating comedy, capturing the disillusionment of a man searching for purpose and meaning in a chaotic, indifferent world. Widely regarded as one of the finest novels to emerge from the Second World War, it stands as an essential work for any reader of serious literary fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48792197890267,"sku":"2026600003124-SECONDHAND","price":125.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/97a6a4b5-f813-4259-870a-0f9a9467dbb0.png?v=1779273309","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026600003124-secondhand-men-at-arms-a-novel","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}