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    Unconditional Surrender

    Written by Evelyn Waugh

    Narrated by Christian Rodska

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    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. 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 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateDec 11, 2012
    ISBN9781619693944
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    Evelyn Waugh

    Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) estudió historia moderna en Oxford, donde llevó, según sus palabras, una vida de "pereza, disolución y derroche". Publicó en 1928 su primera novela, "Cuerpos viles", "¡Noticia bomba!" y "Merienda de negros", publicadas en esta colección, que le establecieron como el novelista cómico inglés más considerabe desde Dickens. Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el influjo de su conversión al catolicismose hizo muy acusado; destacan entre las obras de dicho periodo "Retorno a Brideshead", la trilogía "La espada del honor" y también "Los seres queridos", en la que regresó a la veta satírica de sus primeras novelas.

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      This is the third entry in Waugh's "Sword of Honour" series about life on the English home front and in the English army during World War Two. The narrative gets darker as the war progresses, and the protagonist, Guy Crouchback, sees the noble and honourable reasons for the war, and his own participation in it, evaporate into cynicism and distrust. In the meantime, as the buzz bombs begin to fall over London, those muddling through the war years at home live in ever-increasing discomfort about the degree to which their world will have forever changed, and all that's been lost to them.The theme of the whole trilogy, perhaps, is summed up toward the end (this will not be a plot spoiler) when Guy, posted to Yugoslavia to act as liaison between the British army and the local Communist partisans, has a conversation with Jewish woman who is a defacto leader of the local Jewish community that, having as much to fear from the partisans as they had had from the Nazis, has been petitioning the British government for asylum or at least transport to Italy. The woman asks Guy:"Is there any place that is free from evil? It is too simple to say that only the Nazis wanted war. These Communists wanted it too. It was the only way in which they could come to power. Many of my people wanted it, to be revenged on the Germans, to hasten the creation of the national state. It seems to me there was a will to war, a death wish, everywhere. Even good men thought their private honour would be satisfied by war. They could assert their manhood by killing and being killed. They would accept hardships in recompense for having been selfish and lazy. Danger justified privilege. I knew Italians--not very many--who felt this. Were there none in England?"The first book of the series was the easiest to read; this third book is the best of the series and certainly the most thought-provoking.