by Evelyn Waugh
The first part of the Sword of Honour trilogy finds Guy Crouchback joining the army 8 years after a failed marriage. He stands melancholy and aloof from the host of comic characters he meets en route as he grapples with his Catholicism and the boredom of army life at the start of WW2. It is laugh out loud funny in places but equally sad in others as the loneliness of human existence is laid out. His fellow officers struggles with his thunderbox are a great piece of theatre. 9/10
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