Men at Arms and the Sword of Honour trilogy of which it is the first part are in many respects comparable to Ford Maddox Ford's tetralogy Parade's End (Some Do Not, 1924; No More Parades, 1925; A Man Could Stand Up, 1926; The Last Post, 1928). Both recount an English gentleman of the old school's encounter with war and its social consequences, and both take a realistic, unromantic and extremely effective approach to.....
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