Unconditional Surrender

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

Unconditional Surrender, Evelyn Waugh Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation con his former wife. Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer con the Partisans, he finally becomes aware of the futility of a war he once saw in terms of honour.

’Waugh’s characters have inexorably established themselves among the enduring fiction ... In this respect Waugh is in direct line con Shakespeare e Dickens’ – Clive James in The New York Review of Books.

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: 240-page paperback
Lingua: Inglese
Casa Editrice: Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, England
ISBN: 0-141-18687-9
Pubblicato: 1961

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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