Men at Arms
A Catholic gentleman of thirty-five, divorced and idle in Italy since his marriage failed, comes home in 1939 because the Russo-German pact has at last produced an enemy he can recognise, and talks his way into an old infantry regiment. Training camps, mess etiquette and a magnificently unhinged brigadier fill the months before an inglorious first action off West Africa. The first of three novels drawn from Waugh's own war.
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