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Classic Serial: Evelyn Waugh - Sword of Honour

Tim McInnerny

Paul Ready

Lydia Leonard

John Rowe

Oliver Chris

Tim Pigott-Smith

Joel MacCormack

Priyanga Burford

Robert Daws

Carolyn Pickles

Chris Pavlo

Mia Soteriou

David Seddon

Arthur Hughes

John Norton

Michael Bertenshaw

Sean Murray

Harry Jardine

Tracey Neale

Jeremy Front

Evelyn Waugh

Classic Serial: Evelyn Waugh - Sword of Honour: Episode 7: Unconditional Surrender

Sword of Honour

Episode 7

Episode 7: Unconditional Surrender

Evelyn Waugh - Sword of Honour

Unconditional Surrender

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Guy believes his wartime experience is at an end, but then he receives new orders.

Injuring his knee on a parachute jump, Guy thinks his wartime experience is over, until fresh orders arrive. Stars Paul Ready.

by Evelyn Waugh
Dramatised by Jeremy Front
Evelyn Waugh's satirical WW2 masterpiece:
After injuring his knee during a parachute jump, Guy believes his wartime experience is at an end, but then he receives orders to fly to Italy on a secret mission.

Directed by Tracey Neale

Evelyn Waugh's trilogy of novels mark a high point in his literary career. Originally published as three volumes: Officers and Gentlemen, Men at Arms and Unconditional Surrender they were extensively revised by Waugh, and published as the one-volume Sword of honour in 1965, in the form in which Waugh himself wished they to be read. They are dramatised for the Classic Serial in seven episodes.

This is a story that continues to delight as we follow the comic and often bathetic adventures of Guy
Crouchback. Witty and tragic, engaging and insightful, this work must be counted next to 'Brideshead Revisited' as Waugh's most enduring novel. Sword of Honour effortlessly treads the line between the personal and the political - it is at once an indictment of the incompetence of the Allied war effort, and a moving study of one man's journey from isolation to self fulfilment.

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Evelyn Waugh's satire on the futility of war and one man's quest for spiritual fulfilment

Evelyn Waugh's WWII satirical masterpiece on the futility of war and one man's quest for spiritual fulfilment. Dramatised by Jeremy Front

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