num_pages: 342
description: "An eminently readable comedy of modern war" ( New York Times ), Men at Arms is the first novel in Evelyn Waugh's brilliant Sword of Honor trilogy.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 that seriously blots his Halberdier copybook.Men at Arms is the first novel in Waugh's brilliant Sword of Honor trilogy recording the tumultuous wartime adventures of Guy Crouchback ("the finest work of fiction in English to emerge from World War II" -- Atlantic Monthly ), which also comprises Officers and Gentlemen and Unconditional Surrender.
language: English
title: Men at Arms
titlecomplete: Men at Arms (Paperback)
characters: Guy Crouchback, Colonel Ben Ritchie-Hook, Apthorpe, Ambrose Goodall
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, British Literature, World War II, War, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 3102
series: Sword of Honour
awards: awardedAt: -568051200000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Little Brown