Ufficiali e Gentlemen

Part due of the ’Sword e Honour’ Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh

In this second book of the trilogy, Captain Crouchback is transferred to the Commandos, because of a letter of recommendation from his former brigadier Ritchie-Hook. At the Commando training camp in Scotland he meets his former friend Tommy Blackhouse, second ex-husband of Guy’s ex-wife Virginia, who is now a colonel of Commandos. He gets to know Colonel Jumbo Trotter, an old Halberdier, who acquaints him con the many priviledges of the life dell’ufficiale inglese.

Eventually, the Commandos are deployed to Egypt, e thence to Crete, where they act as a rear-guard of the retreating truppe britanniche, Australian, New Zealand, e Indian on the island. When the allied forces on Crete surrender, Crouchback e Corporal Ludovic manage to evade capture e return to Egypt by fishing boat.

Contenuto

• Titolo: Sword e Honour
  1. Men At Arms (1952)
  2. Ufficiali e Gentlemen (1955)
  3. Unconditional Surrender (1961)
• Epoca: seconda guerra mondiale, 1939–1945
• Tipo: historic novel
• Autore: Evelyn Waugh
• Formato: 256-page paperback
• Lingua: Inglese
• Casa Editrice: Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, England
• ISBN: 0-141-18467-1
• Pubblicato: 1955

The author, Evelyn Waugh, was a staff officer of Layforce, at the rank of brigade-major. Layforce, the Commando brigade of Colonel Robert Edward Laycock, consisted of tre battaglioni delle forze speciali britannici, ed un battaglione from No. 50 e 52 (Middle East) Commando. Waugh’s historical novels are strongly autobiographical, they show the futility ed absurdities of war from a warriors perspective.

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