Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : ePenguin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0141886161
Sword of Honour
Evelyn Waugh
The Sword Of Honour Trilogy
The Sword Of Honour Trilogy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The Sword Of Honour Trilogy book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Men at Arms
Evelyn Waugh
Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667623733
Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh Pdf
Volume 1 of Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy. The other two volumes are Officers and Gentlemen and The End of the Battle (UK title Unconditional Surrender). The novel is semi-autobiographical and reflects Waugh's experiences during the Second World War, while giving a satirical view of military bureaucracy. There is a strong religious element.
PUT OUT MORE FLAGS
Evelyn Waugh
Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667623764
PUT OUT MORE FLAGS by Evelyn Waugh Pdf
Put Out More Flags is set during the first year of the war and follows the wartime activities of characters introduced in Waugh’s earlier satirical novels Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, and Black Mischief.
The dormant conflict is reflected in the activity of the novel’s main characters. Earnest would-be soldier Alistair Trumpington finds himself engaged in incomprehensible manoeuvres instead of real combat, while Waugh’s recurring ne’er-do-well Basil Seal, finds ample opportunity for amusing himself in the name of the war effort.
The Sword of Honour Trilogy
Evelyn Waugh
Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : England
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006016211
The Sword of Honour Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh Pdf
3 stories based on the author's experiences in World War II.
Officers and Gentlemen
Evelyn Waugh
Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667623740
Officers and Gentlemen by Evelyn Waugh Pdf
Fueled by idealism and eagerness to contribute to the war effort, Guy Crouchback becomes attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and respect must be paid to the laird. But the comedy of Mugg is soon followed by the bitterness of Crete, where chaos reigns and a difficult evacuation must be accomplished.—Goodreads.com.
Unconditional Surrender
Evelyn Waugh
Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780718197780
Unconditional Surrender by Evelyn Waugh Pdf
Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former wife. Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer with the partisans, he finally becomes aware of the futility of a war he once saw in terms of honour.
Sword of Honour Trilogy
Evelyn Waugh
Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735253032
Sword of Honour Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh Pdf
Consisting of the novels Men at Arms, Officers and Gentleman, and Unconditional Surrender, this trilogy about World War II is largely based on Evelyn Waugh's own experiences as an army officer, and is the crowning achievement of his career. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, but then gradually finds the complexities and cruelties of war too much for him. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
Sword of Honor
David Kirk
Author : David Kirk
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385678193
Sword of Honor by David Kirk Pdf
In the epic historical novel Sword of Honor, David Kirk continues the saga of Musashi Miyamoto, the greatest samurai in Japanese history, as he journeys to the ancient city of Kyoto to fight for his life and his ideals. Having survived the cataclysmic battle of Sekigahara, which established the mighty Tokugawa Shogunate, young Musashi Miyamoto travels through Japan determined to proclaim his revolutionary epiphany that the "way of the sword," the ancient code that binds samurai to their masters, needs to be abolished. But during the battle Musashi insulted an adept of the powerful Yoshioka School, and a price has been put on his head. Musashi travels to Kyoto, domain of the Yoshioka, for a reckoning. He has taken up with Ameku, a beautiful blind woman branded as a witch; his burgeoning love for her will make him vulnerable. Mushashi intends to deal a crushing blow to the traditional samurai dogma by destroying the Yoshioka warriors, but Musashi will learn that his spectacular gifts with the sword are no match for the cunning of powerful lords. The wily Tokugawa governor, still struggling to establish dominance in Kyoto, sees in Musashi just the weapon he needs to overcome the rebellious Yoshioka. Sword of Honor seamlessly blends meticulous research, mesmerizing action sequences, and a driving narrative to bring this extraordinary figure to life.
Happy Odyssey
Adrian Carton de Wiart
Author : Adrian Carton de Wiart
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781848849181
Happy Odyssey by Adrian Carton de Wiart Pdf
The legendary British Army officer recounts his experiences in the Boer War and both World Wars in this memoir with a foreword by Winston Churchill. Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart had one of the most extraordinary military careers in the history of the British Army. His gallantry in combat won him a Victoria Cross and a Distinguished Service Order, as well as an eyepatch and an empty sleeve. His autobiography is one of the most remarkable of military memoirs. Carton de Wiart abandoned his law studies at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1899 to serve as a trooper in the South African War. During World War I he served both in British Somaliland and on the Western Front, where he lost his left eye to a bullet at the Battle of Somme. He went on to serve as a liaison officer with Polish forces, narrowly escaping the German blitz at the outbreak of World War II. He was part of the British Military Mission to Yugoslavia, taken prisoner by the Italian Army, and made numerous attempts at escape. He spent the remainder of the war as Churchill’s representative in China. The novelist Evelyn Waugh famously used Carton de Wiart as the model for his character Brigadier Ben Ritchie Hook in the Sword of Honour trilogy. In this thrilling autobiography, the legendary officer tells his own remarkable story.
Devlin's Honor
Patricia Bray
Author : Patricia Bray
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307418005
Devlin's Honor by Patricia Bray Pdf
Devlin of Duncaer is the Chosen One, champion of the Kingdom of Jorsk. A simple metalsmith and farmer turned warrior, he has become the most unlikely of heroes to the conquerors of his own people, the Caerfolk. Yet there is a growing faction of Jorskians who believe that if he were truly anointed as Chosen One by the Gods, then the immortals would have given him the Sword of Light as proof of his calling. Missing for generations, the sword is more myth than reality. But Devlin knows where to find it. Lost in battle after the Jorskians’ brutal massacre of Caerfolk, it has remained in Duncaer, a souvenir of one of the land’s darkest days. Feeling more than ever a pawn of fate—and a plaything of the Gods who drive him—Devlin must return to the land of his birth, back to the people who have denounced him. For he is bound by an oath he has no choice but to obey...a promise he may have to die to keep.
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED;THE SACRED AND PROFANE MEMORIES OF CAPTAIN CHARLES RYDER
Evelyn Waugh
Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667623689
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED;THE SACRED AND PROFANE MEMORIES OF CAPTAIN CHARLES RYDER by Evelyn Waugh Pdf
When the Going Was Good
Evelyn Waugh
Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780718197766
When the Going Was Good by Evelyn Waugh Pdf
Between 1929 and 1935 Evelyn Waugh travelled widely and wrote four books about his experiences. In this collection he writes, with his customary wit and perception, about a cruise around the Mediterranean; a train trip from Djibouti to Abyssinia to attend Emperor Haile Selassie's coronation in 1930; his travels in Aden, Zanzibar, Kenya and the Congo, coping with unbearable heat and plagued by mosquitoes; a journey to Guyana and Brazil; and his return to Addis Ababa in 1935 to report on the war between Abyssinia and Italy. Waugh's adventures on his travels gave him the ideas for such classic novels as Scoop and Black Mischief.
Little Wilson and Big God
Anthony Burgess
Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher : Random House
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446452554
Little Wilson and Big God by Anthony Burgess Pdf
These are Anthony Burgess's candid confessions: he was seduced at the age of nine by an older woman; whilst serving in Gibraltar in World War II he was thrown into jail on VE Day for calling Franco names; he once taught a group of Nazi socialites that the English equivalent of 'heil' was 'sod' and had them crying 'Sod Hitler'. Little Wilson and Big God moves from Moss Side to Malaya recalling Burgess's time as an education officer in the tropics, his tempestuous first marriage, his struggles with Catholicism and the beginning of his prolific writing life. Wise, self-deprecating and bristling with incident, this is a first-class memoir.
The Junior Officers' Reading Club
Patrick Hennessey
Author : Patrick Hennessey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101460054
The Junior Officers' Reading Club by Patrick Hennessey Pdf
Hailed as a classic of war writing in the U.K., The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a revelatory first-hand account of a young enlistee's profound coming of age. Attempting to stave off the tedium and pressures of army life in the Iraqi desert by losing themselves in the dusty paperbacks on the transit-camp bookshelves, Hennessey and a handful of his pals from military academy form the Junior Officers' Reading Club. By the time he reaches Afghanistan and the rest of the club are scattered across the Middle East, they are no longer cheerfully overconfident young recruits, hungering for action and glory. Hennessey captures how boys grow into men amid the frenetic, sometimes exhilarating violence, frequent boredom, and almost overwhelming responsibilities that frame a soldier's experience and the way we fight today. Watch a Video
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh
Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1120833836
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh Pdf
Satire over engelsk overklasseliv i begyndelsen af 1900-tallet med Tony i centrum som en ung gentleman, der må se alle sine illusioner om kærlighed, ægteskab, slægt og historie briste