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Officers and Gentlemen: A Trilogy

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Officers and Gentlemen: A Trilogy
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In his novel trilogy "Officers and Gentlemen" (Sword of Honour, 1952–1961), English writer Evelyn Waugh, known for his penchant for delivering scathingly ironic judgments not only on individual characters but on entire social classes, takes a merciless satirical look at Britain's pride and joy—its army. Tracing the fate of Lieutenant, and later Captain, Guy Crouchback, serving in the Royal Halberdier Corps during World War II, the author debunks the imperial myth of the military as "empire builders." The protagonist's naive admiration for "armed men" and his lofty dreams of valor, exploits, heroism, and service to the fatherland gradually give way to acute disappointment, which culminates in the "unconditional surrender" of Crouchback's former romantic ideals in the face of the unsightly reality of the decrepit military machine of "good old England" - with its bureaucracy, careerism, deference to rank and corruption, stupidity, pomposity, cowardice, and sometimes senseless cruelty...
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