Unconditional Surrender

Name: Unconditional Surrender
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Evelyn Waugh
ISBN: 9781619693944

Author: Evelyn Waugh

Narrator: Christian Rodska

Unabridged: 8 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company

Published: 12/11/2012

Categories: Fiction, Military Fiction, Literary Fiction, Satire

Synopsis

By 1941, after serving in North Africa and Crete, 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, Crouch becomes finally and fully aware of the futility of a war he once saw in terms of honor.

Unconditional Surrender is the third 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 Men at Arms and Officers and Gentlemen.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nashelito on May 21, 2023

Відверто кажучи, мені трохи дивно, що про трилогію "Клинок честі" Івліна Во не пишуть, не обговорюють, не згадують зараз на кожному кроці. Коли я читав кожну з трьох частин, то щоразу ловив себе на думках про те, як сильно досвід Ґая Краучбека – сорокарічного офіцера британської армії під час Другої......more

Goodreads review by Noel on August 17, 2022

The book was a great end to the trilogy. The portrayal of decline in the aristocracy especially with a world war in the picture makes it feel like a continuation of some of Proust’s ideas. And one character writes a long, meandering, barely coherent novel and then buys a castello and I can’t help fe......more

Quotes

"The quality of the writing is, throughout, superb, and confirms my belief that Mr. Waugh is the best living writer of English prose."—Bernard Bergonzi, Guardian

"What Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford's great work, was to World War I, Evelyn Waugh's 'Sword of Honour' trilogy is to World War II."—Herbert A. Kenny, Boston Globe

"The wit endures; at full strength, wit is rage made bearable, and useful....Waugh's military trilogy has much to recommend it."—Gore Vidal, New York Times Book Review

"The importance of Unconditional Surrender lies not so much in itself (beautifully organized and written and hypnotically readable as it is) as in its contribution to the pattern of the trilogy....The complete work now clearly emerges as Mr. Waugh's main achievement to date, and the one piece of English fiction about the 1939-45 War which is certain to survive."—Times Literary Supplement