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Officers and Gentlemen: A Trilogy

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In the novel trilogy "Officers and Gentlemen" ("Sword of Honor", 1952-1961) English writer Evelyn Waugh, known for his tendency to deliver murderous and ironic sentences not only to individual characters, but the whole class, turns a merciless satirical look at the beauty and pride of Britain - its army. Tracing the fate of Lieutenant, and later Captain Guy Crouchback, serving in the Royal Halberdiers' Corps during the Second World War, the author debunks the power myth of the military - "empire builders". The naive admiration of the protagonist "armed men" and his lofty dreams of valor, feats, heroism and service to the fatherland little by little 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 and corruption, stupidity, pomposity, cowardice and sometimes senseless cruelty....
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