Haven't tried Waugh in years. I guess I just wasn't in the mood for a shallow, aren't-we-just-too-clever, condescending, supercilious, it's-so-hard-to-get-good-help-these-days, don't-we-toffs-all-have-such-amusing-nicknames view of war.

This second installment of the Sword of Honor trilogy pretty much takes on from where it left in book one, and continues the wry witted meanderings of the ever so likable "Guy" through second-world-war. The wit is so pervasive, that one is always chuckling through the chronicles. Vintage British humor -- self-deprecating, dark, matter of fact.

From BBC Radio 4 - Classical Serial:
1/2: Sent home in disgrace following a misbegotten raid in Dakar, Guy is again looking for useful employment. But his next posting takes him somewhere totally unexpected.

2/2: Guy's unit have been posted to Egypt where they are surrounded more by rumour than action. But the chaos of war is approaching.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03cdh4l

3* Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
3* Decline and Fall
3* Scoop
3* Mr Loveday's Little Outing & Other Early Stories
3* Men at Arms
4* Officers and Gentlemen
CR Unconditional Surrender: The Conclusion of Men at Arms and Officers and Gentlemen
TR A Handful of Dust
TR Vile Bodies
TR Labels
TR Ninety Two Days: A Journey In Guiana And Brazil, 1932