"Which English novelist wrote ""Decline and Fall"", ""Brideshead Revisited"" and ""Officers and Gentlemen""?"
Officers and Gentlemen Officers and Gentlemen Officers and Gentlemen is a 1955 novel by the British novelist Evelyn Waugh. "Officers and Gentlemen" is the second novel in Waugh's "Sword of Honour" trilogy, the author's look at the Second World War. The novels loosely parallel Waugh's wartime experiences. The first was "Men at Arms" (1952), the third was "Unconditional Surrender" (1961). Sent back to the UK in disgrace at the end of the first novel, Guy Crouchback — heir of a declining aristocratic English Roman Catholic family—manages to find a place in a fledgling commando brigade, training on a Scottish island under an old
Brideshead Revisited 1944. He was mildly disparaging of the novel, stating; "It was a bleak period of present privation and threatening disaster – the period of soya beans and Basic English – and in consequence the book is infused with a kind of gluttony, for food and wine, for the splendours of the recent past, and for rhetorical and ornamental language which now, with a full stomach, I find distasteful." In the United States, "Brideshead Revisited" was the Book of the Month Club selection for January 1946. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked "Brideshead Revisited" No. 80 on its list of the