Unconditional Surrender


Author
Evelyn Waugh
Publisher
Penguin Books
Date Published
1964
Guy Crouchback’s military career, begun so spiritedly in ‘Men at Arms’, came to an unhappy climax with the defeat and withdrawal from Crete described in ‘Officers and Gentlemen’. The Crouchback who soldiers on has lost his idealism but gained in human sympathy.

Cover illustration by Quentin Blake