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The two sequels to Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen (1955) and Unconditional Surrender (1961), take Guy Crouchback through the rest of World War II. Officers and Gentlemen finds him transferring from his old regiment, the Halberdiers, to the Commandos and culminates in the loss of the battle for Crete. In Unconditional Surrender, Guy goes on a dangerous mission to Communist partisans in Yugoslavia and is reconciled with his ex-wife, who then dies in an air raid; in an epilogue set in 1951, Guy is seen as a happily remarried father who is now at peace with himself and his social obligations. The two later books are, if anything, even more subtly and powerfully written than Men at Arms, and the Sword of Honour trilogy as a whole constitutes what is generally regarded as the finest fictional treatment of the English experience of World War II.