"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.
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And his first campaign, an abortive affair on the West African coastline, ends with an escapade that seriously blots his Halberdier copybook.
His spirits high, he sees all the trimmings but none of the action.
Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. "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