Men at Arms
by Evelyn Waugh
Determined to go to war, Guy Crouchbeck accepts a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. The mood is high, he sees all the decorations, but he does nothing. And his first campaign, a failed affair off the coast of West Africa, ends with an escape that takes seriously his copy book Halberdieu. Men in Service is the first novel in Vaud's brilliant Sword of Honor trilogy, and it records the turbulent adventures of Guy Crouchbeck ("the best fiction in English to come out of World War II") and also includes officers and lords and unconditional submission.
