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Unconditional Surrender is a 1961 novel by the British novelist Evelyn Waugh. The novel has also been published under the title The End of the Battle . Along with the other two novels in the series, it was adapted into a 2001 TV film with Daniel Craig .
Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer with the partisans, Crouch becomes finally and fully aware of the futility of a war he once saw in terms of honor."Unconditional Surrender" is the...
Evelyn Waugh. Penguin, 2001 - Fiction - 240 pages. Waugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is superbly re-enacted in this story of Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman, commissioned...
Through deft narrative and biting wit, the novel explores the absurdity of a pervasive class system that clings to power and privilege even in the face of existential threat. Waugh's prose cuts...
1,330 ratings115 reviews. By 1941, after serving in North Africa and Crete, Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former wife.
Unconditional Surrender was finally written, and published in 1961. Twenty years, six novels, two travel books, and a biography separate this novel from the raw experiences it was based on. The impacted biographical substrata of a third of Waugh's life and more than a third of his total literary output provide the foundations for his last novel.
Unconditional Surrender is the third novel in Waugh’s brilliant Sword of Honor trilogy recording the tumultuous wartime adventures of Guy Crouchback (“the finest work of fiction in English to emerge from World War II”- Atlantic Monthly ), which also comprises Men at Arms and Officers and Gentlemen. Continue Reading. Genre: Fiction. War & Military.
