num_pages: 256
description: Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees all the trimmings but none of the action. And his first campaign, an abortive affair on the West African coastline, ends with an escapade which seriously blots his Halberdier copybook. Men at Arms is the first book in Waugh’s brilliant trilogy, Sword of Honour, which chronicles the fortunes of Guy Crouchback. The second and third volumes, Officers and Gentlemen and Unconditional Surrender, are also published in Penguin. Sword of Honour has recently been made into a television drama series, with screenplay by William Boyd.
language: English
title: Men at Arms
titlecomplete: Men at Arms (Sword of Honour, #1)
characters: Guy Crouchback, Colonel Ben Ritchie-Hook, Ambrose Goodall, Apthorpe
genres: Classics, British Literature, World War II, Novels, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 3102
series: Sword of Honour
awards: awardedAt: -568051200000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin Classic