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This book brings that the Second World War to life in a wonderful way. Waugh is good on the eccentricity of it, the madness of the war

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Sword of Honour

by Evelyn Waugh

Other books by Evelyn Waugh

Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh

Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

Letters of Evelyn Waugh by Evelyn Waugh

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh

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On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

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Vile Bodies
by Evelyn Waugh

Decline and Fall
by Evelyn Waugh

Letters of Evelyn Waugh
by Evelyn Waugh

Scoop
by Evelyn Waugh

Put Out More Flags
by Evelyn Waugh

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

War and Peace (Book)
by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

The Looming Tower
by Lawrence Wright

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley