Officers and Gentlemen
Fire-watching through the London blitz, then commando training on a Hebridean island under a legendary colonel, carry the halberdier through to embarkation for the Middle East. What waits in Crete is a rout, and the conduct of the officers during the evacuation is the book's real subject. Waugh drew on his own part in the withdrawal from Crete in 1941.
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