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* TheVerse: Hazardous Offensive Operations is based in Marchmain House, the block of flats that replaced the Flytes' demolished town house in ''Literature/BridesheadRevisited''.
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** Trimmer also disappears from the story, and takes no role in either Guy’s Yugoslavian misadventures or the general wrapping-up of the last few pages.
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* OnlySaneMan - quite a few, including Ian Kilbannock (principal author of Trimmer’s bogus status as a war hero), Trimmer (who mostly acts in a logical, if sometimes dishonest or reprehensible manner in an increasingly surreal situation), Colonel Trotter, Mr Crouchback
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* AnOfficerAndAGentleman - Guy Crouchback, Tommy Blackhouse, Ivor Claire. Averted by Corporal-Major Ludovic, who is later promoted but retains his working-class origins.
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* MilesGloriosus - Trimmer, much of the time. Subverted in that no-one who actually knows him, believes a word of it but all collude in the fiction for their various purposes
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* OfficerAndAGentleman - Guy Crouchback, Tommy Blackhouse, Ivor Claire. Averted by Corporal-Major Ludovic, who is later promoted but retains his working-class origins.
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''The Sword of Honour'' is a trilogy by Creator/EvelynWaugh, drawing on his own experiences during WorldWarII. The three books, later released as a single volume, are ''Men at Arms'' (1952), ''Officers and Gentlemen'' (1955) and ''Unconditional Surrender''(1961).
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''The Sword of Honour'' is a trilogy by Creator/EvelynWaugh, drawing on his own experiences during WorldWarII.UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. The three books, later released as a single volume, are ''Men at Arms'' (1952), ''Officers and Gentlemen'' (1955) and ''Unconditional Surrender''(1961).
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Our hero attempts to join the British Army, finally succeeding (thanks to a chance encounter with an acquaintance of Guy's father) with the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. He trains as [[AnOfficerAndAGentleman an officer]] and is posted to various centres around Britain. One of the themes is recurring [[ArmedFarces "flaps"]] or chaos — embarking and disembarking from ships and railway carriages that go nowhere. Crouchback meets [[TheBrigadier Brigadier]] Ben Ritchie-Hook, [[ColonelBadAss a fire eater]] and Apthorpe, a [[UpperClassTwit very eccentric fellow officer]] with an obsession regarding 'porpoises' (i.e: boots) and his prized portable commode.
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Our hero attempts to join the British Army, finally succeeding (thanks to a chance encounter with an acquaintance of Guy's father) with the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. He trains as [[AnOfficerAndAGentleman [[OfficerAndAGentleman an officer]] and is posted to various centres around Britain. One of the themes is recurring [[ArmedFarces "flaps"]] or chaos — embarking and disembarking from ships and railway carriages that go nowhere. Crouchback meets [[TheBrigadier Brigadier]] Ben Ritchie-Hook, [[ColonelBadAss a fire eater]] and Apthorpe, a [[UpperClassTwit very eccentric fellow officer]] with an obsession regarding 'porpoises' (i.e: boots) and his prized portable commode.
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Crouchback spends 1941–43 in Britain, mostly at desk jobs. He turns 40 and, with Germany's invasion of Russia and Britain's subsequent alliance with the Soviet Union, feels the futility of the war. American soldiers are all over London. Virginia has fallen on hard times and is reduced to selling her furs. She had been persuaded to accompany Trimmer, her former hairdresser who was set up as a war hero for media consumption. She becomes pregnant by him and searches futilely for an abortionist. Eventually she decides to look for a husband instead. Crouchback is chosen for parachute training prior to being sent into action one last time. Before he goes abroad, they are reconciled and remarry (resume their marriage, in the eyes of the Roman Church). Virginia stays in London with his elderly bachelor uncle, Peregrine Crouchback and has her baby there. Despite being incorrectly suspected of pro-Axis sympathies because of his time in pre-war Italy and of his Catholicism, Crouchback is posted to Yugoslavia, where he is appalled by the Partisans, befriends a small group of Jews and finds out that his former friend [[CulturedWarrior de Souza]]'s loyalties are with Communism rather than with England. While Crouchback is overseas, a German doodlebug hits Uncle Peregrine's flat and kills him and [[DiedHappilyEverAfter Virginia]], sparing Virginia and Trimmer's son, Gervase, who is in the country with Crouchback's sister.
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Crouchback spends 1941–43 1941-43 in Britain, mostly at desk jobs. He turns 40 and, with Germany's invasion of Russia and Britain's subsequent alliance with the Soviet Union, feels the futility of the war. American soldiers are all over London. Virginia has fallen on hard times and is reduced to selling her furs. She had been persuaded to accompany Trimmer, her former hairdresser who was set up as a war hero for media consumption. She becomes pregnant by him and searches futilely for an abortionist. Eventually she decides to look for a husband instead. Crouchback is chosen for parachute training prior to being sent into action one last time. Before he goes abroad, they are reconciled and remarry (resume their marriage, in the eyes of the Roman Church). Virginia stays in London with his elderly bachelor uncle, Peregrine Crouchback and has her baby there. Despite being incorrectly suspected of pro-Axis sympathies because of his time in pre-war Italy and of his Catholicism, Crouchback is posted to Yugoslavia, where he is appalled by the Partisans, befriends a small group of Jews and finds out that his former friend [[CulturedWarrior de Souza]]'s loyalties are with Communism rather than with England. While Crouchback is overseas, a German doodlebug hits Uncle Peregrine's flat and kills him and [[DiedHappilyEverAfter Virginia]], sparing Virginia and Trimmer's son, Gervase, who is in the country with Crouchback's sister.
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''The Sword of Honour'' is a trilogy by Creator/EvelynWaugh, drawing on his own experiences during WorldWarII. The three books, later released as a single volume, are ''Men at Arms'' (1952), ''Officers and Gentlemen'' (1955) and ''Unconditional Surrender''(1961).
The hero is Guy Crouchback, heir of a declining aristocratic English Roman Catholic family. He has spent his thirties at the family villa in Italy shunning the world after the failure of his marriage and has decided to return to England at the very beginning of the Second World War, in the belief that the creeping evils of modernity, gradually apparent in the [[DirtyCommunists Soviet Union]] and the [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi Germany]], have become all too clearly displayed as [[CommieNazis a real and embodied enemy]].
Our hero attempts to join the British Army, finally succeeding (thanks to a chance encounter with an acquaintance of Guy's father) with the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. He trains as [[AnOfficerAndAGentleman an officer]] and is posted to various centres around Britain. One of the themes is recurring [[ArmedFarces "flaps"]] or chaos — embarking and disembarking from ships and railway carriages that go nowhere. Crouchback meets [[TheBrigadier Brigadier]] Ben Ritchie-Hook, [[ColonelBadAss a fire eater]] and Apthorpe, a [[UpperClassTwit very eccentric fellow officer]] with an obsession regarding 'porpoises' (i.e: boots) and his prized portable commode.
Before being sent on active service, Guy attempts to seduce [[GoldDigger Virginia]], secure in the knowledge that the Roman Church still regards her as his wife; she refuses him. He and Ben Ritchie-Hook [[HilarityEnsues share an adventure]] whilst on a top-secret mission in [[MoreDakka Dakar]]. Apthorpe dies in Freetown, supposedly of a tropical disease; when it is discovered that Guy gave him a bottle of whisky when visiting him in hospital (possibly the cause of death) Crouchback is sent home, having blotted his copybook.
Crouchback eventually manages to find a place in a fledgling commando brigade training on a Scottish island under an old friend, Tommy Blackhouse, for whom Virginia left him. Another trainee is a former showjumper Captain Ivor Claire, whom Crouchback regards as the flower of English chivalry. Crouchback learns to exploit the niceties of military ways of doing things with the assistance of [[ArmchairMilitary Colonel]] [[BigEater Jumbo Trotter]], an [[CoolOldGuy elderly]] Halberdier who knows all the strings to pull. Crouchback is posted to Egypt, headquarters for the Middle East theatre of operations. This involves him in the [[LastStand evacuation of Crete]], where he acquits himself well, though chaos and muddle prevail. At this time he meets [[DeadpanSnarker Corporal]] [[FauxAffablyEvil Ludovic]] and they and a few others escape in a small boat, a most perilous undertaking. Eventually they are rescued, delirious with thirst and exposure and taken back to Egypt, where Mrs Stitch, a character who turns up in other Waugh books, takes him under her well-connected wing and equally tries to protect Claire, who has also blotted his copybook. She sends Crouchback the long way home to England, where once more he finds himself in his club asking around for a suitable job. Thus ends the second book.
Crouchback spends 1941–43 in Britain, mostly at desk jobs. He turns 40 and, with Germany's invasion of Russia and Britain's subsequent alliance with the Soviet Union, feels the futility of the war. American soldiers are all over London. Virginia has fallen on hard times and is reduced to selling her furs. She had been persuaded to accompany Trimmer, her former hairdresser who was set up as a war hero for media consumption. She becomes pregnant by him and searches futilely for an abortionist. Eventually she decides to look for a husband instead. Crouchback is chosen for parachute training prior to being sent into action one last time. Before he goes abroad, they are reconciled and remarry (resume their marriage, in the eyes of the Roman Church). Virginia stays in London with his elderly bachelor uncle, Peregrine Crouchback and has her baby there. Despite being incorrectly suspected of pro-Axis sympathies because of his time in pre-war Italy and of his Catholicism, Crouchback is posted to Yugoslavia, where he is appalled by the Partisans, befriends a small group of Jews and finds out that his former friend [[CulturedWarrior de Souza]]'s loyalties are with Communism rather than with England. While Crouchback is overseas, a German doodlebug hits Uncle Peregrine's flat and kills him and [[DiedHappilyEverAfter Virginia]], sparing Virginia and Trimmer's son, Gervase, who is in the country with Crouchback's sister.
After the end of the war, Guy meets the daughter of another old Roman Catholic family [[BittersweetEnding and marries her]]. This is doubly ironic in that she has become the carer for Virginia's son by Trimmer; it is never clear whether Guy knows of the child's actual parentage.
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!! This show provides examples of:
* AnOfficerAndAGentleman - Guy Crouchback, Tommy Blackhouse, Ivor Claire. Averted by Corporal-Major Ludovic, who is later promoted but retains his working-class origins.
* ArmchairMilitary - Colonel 'Jumbo' Trotter, happy to see the war out from a comfortable seated position.
* ArmedFarces - Big time.
* BornInTheWrongCentury - Guy Crouchback is inspired by the example of an English knight buried beneath the local church. Sir Roger de Waybrook left England to take part in the Crusades, but died in a local brawl before getting even halfway there.
* ChurchMilitant - Uncle Peregrine's fantasy of a pan-European Catholic uprising against the Nazis.
* CoolOldGuy - Brigadier Ritchie-Hook, and probably Colonel Trotter.
** Guy's father, referred to only as Mr Crouchback
* CoolSword - The Sword of Stalingrad, commissioned by the King on behalf of the British people, to acknowledge the sacrifice of the Soviet forces at Stalingrad. Subverted by the arcane discussion about whether the emblem on the hilt is in fact, the wrong way up ( which in fact, it is )
* CulturedWarrior - Guy certainly, but also somewhat subverted by Ludovic, who writes poetry, keeps a diary, refers to his binoculars as "opera glasses", and originally trained as a cavalryman. Upheld by Frank de Souza, who cannot finish a sentence without invoking Shakespeare.
* DeadpanSnarker - Ludovic, and to a smaller extent Crouchback.
* DirtyCommunists - Frank de Souza, the Croatian Partisans, Sir Ralph Brompton, and roughly half of the Hazardous Offensive Operations division. Mind you, Waugh was so right-wing by the time of writing he seems to think Britain itself was turning into a Communist country.
** O, that you should be living at this time!
* EndOfAnAge - [[spoiler: Guy's father, uncle, and wife are all dead]], London is full of foreign soldiers, Britain is the junior partner in a web of alliances that includes the Soviet Union (which Guy felt was part of the 'great enemy in sight at last, huge, far-off, and hateful'.
** also the latter stages of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook's story arc, from his gross misjudgement in leading an unauthorised raid to his suicidal charge in Yugoslavia
* FatIdiot - Major Hound
* FauxAffablyEvil - Julia Stitch, Ludovic, Brompton again.
* GoldDigger - Virginia Troy, and doesn't she just know it?
* KnightInShiningArmor: Guy pretty obviously thinks of himself as this.
** inverted by Ivor Claire, who is apparently a veritable Galahad but commits the military crime of boarding a ship for Egypt, against orders, during the Fall of Crete. Whether this is cowardice, or a case of OnlySaneMan, is a matter of opinion.
* MilesGloriosus - Trimmer, much of the time. Subverted in that no-one who actually knows him, believes a word of it but all collude in the fiction for their various purposes
* ThoseWackyNazis - Notable by their absence. Apart from the occasional doodlebug, and the Stukas in Crete, only one German soldier (a despatch rider on a Cretan dirt road) ever appears.
* UpperClassTwit - Apthorpe, Major Hound. Subverted by Apthorpe's increasingly turning into a Cloudcuckoolander, culminating in TheReveal by "Chatty" Corner, who actually knew Apthorpe in his African days
** General Whale could be this, nicknamed "Brides-in-the-bath" by his subordinates due to the general insanity and lethal character of his various operational plans, none of which ( apart from "Popgun" ) are ever seen to be realised.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse - Major Hound's disappearance. After Hound and Ludovic spend some time off-screen during the retreat, only Ludovic appears at the evacuation beach [[spoiler: wearing Hound's shoulder badges]]. Ludovic merely states to Crouchback a long time later that he cannot remember anything, but his slowly growing mental instability suggests that he knows more than he is telling.
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The hero is Guy Crouchback, heir of a declining aristocratic English Roman Catholic family. He has spent his thirties at the family villa in Italy shunning the world after the failure of his marriage and has decided to return to England at the very beginning of the Second World War, in the belief that the creeping evils of modernity, gradually apparent in the [[DirtyCommunists Soviet Union]] and the [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi Germany]], have become all too clearly displayed as [[CommieNazis a real and embodied enemy]].
Our hero attempts to join the British Army, finally succeeding (thanks to a chance encounter with an acquaintance of Guy's father) with the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. He trains as [[AnOfficerAndAGentleman an officer]] and is posted to various centres around Britain. One of the themes is recurring [[ArmedFarces "flaps"]] or chaos — embarking and disembarking from ships and railway carriages that go nowhere. Crouchback meets [[TheBrigadier Brigadier]] Ben Ritchie-Hook, [[ColonelBadAss a fire eater]] and Apthorpe, a [[UpperClassTwit very eccentric fellow officer]] with an obsession regarding 'porpoises' (i.e: boots) and his prized portable commode.
Before being sent on active service, Guy attempts to seduce [[GoldDigger Virginia]], secure in the knowledge that the Roman Church still regards her as his wife; she refuses him. He and Ben Ritchie-Hook [[HilarityEnsues share an adventure]] whilst on a top-secret mission in [[MoreDakka Dakar]]. Apthorpe dies in Freetown, supposedly of a tropical disease; when it is discovered that Guy gave him a bottle of whisky when visiting him in hospital (possibly the cause of death) Crouchback is sent home, having blotted his copybook.
Crouchback eventually manages to find a place in a fledgling commando brigade training on a Scottish island under an old friend, Tommy Blackhouse, for whom Virginia left him. Another trainee is a former showjumper Captain Ivor Claire, whom Crouchback regards as the flower of English chivalry. Crouchback learns to exploit the niceties of military ways of doing things with the assistance of [[ArmchairMilitary Colonel]] [[BigEater Jumbo Trotter]], an [[CoolOldGuy elderly]] Halberdier who knows all the strings to pull. Crouchback is posted to Egypt, headquarters for the Middle East theatre of operations. This involves him in the [[LastStand evacuation of Crete]], where he acquits himself well, though chaos and muddle prevail. At this time he meets [[DeadpanSnarker Corporal]] [[FauxAffablyEvil Ludovic]] and they and a few others escape in a small boat, a most perilous undertaking. Eventually they are rescued, delirious with thirst and exposure and taken back to Egypt, where Mrs Stitch, a character who turns up in other Waugh books, takes him under her well-connected wing and equally tries to protect Claire, who has also blotted his copybook. She sends Crouchback the long way home to England, where once more he finds himself in his club asking around for a suitable job. Thus ends the second book.
Crouchback spends 1941–43 in Britain, mostly at desk jobs. He turns 40 and, with Germany's invasion of Russia and Britain's subsequent alliance with the Soviet Union, feels the futility of the war. American soldiers are all over London. Virginia has fallen on hard times and is reduced to selling her furs. She had been persuaded to accompany Trimmer, her former hairdresser who was set up as a war hero for media consumption. She becomes pregnant by him and searches futilely for an abortionist. Eventually she decides to look for a husband instead. Crouchback is chosen for parachute training prior to being sent into action one last time. Before he goes abroad, they are reconciled and remarry (resume their marriage, in the eyes of the Roman Church). Virginia stays in London with his elderly bachelor uncle, Peregrine Crouchback and has her baby there. Despite being incorrectly suspected of pro-Axis sympathies because of his time in pre-war Italy and of his Catholicism, Crouchback is posted to Yugoslavia, where he is appalled by the Partisans, befriends a small group of Jews and finds out that his former friend [[CulturedWarrior de Souza]]'s loyalties are with Communism rather than with England. While Crouchback is overseas, a German doodlebug hits Uncle Peregrine's flat and kills him and [[DiedHappilyEverAfter Virginia]], sparing Virginia and Trimmer's son, Gervase, who is in the country with Crouchback's sister.
After the end of the war, Guy meets the daughter of another old Roman Catholic family [[BittersweetEnding and marries her]]. This is doubly ironic in that she has become the carer for Virginia's son by Trimmer; it is never clear whether Guy knows of the child's actual parentage.
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!! This show provides examples of:
* AnOfficerAndAGentleman - Guy Crouchback, Tommy Blackhouse, Ivor Claire. Averted by Corporal-Major Ludovic, who is later promoted but retains his working-class origins.
* ArmchairMilitary - Colonel 'Jumbo' Trotter, happy to see the war out from a comfortable seated position.
* ArmedFarces - Big time.
* BornInTheWrongCentury - Guy Crouchback is inspired by the example of an English knight buried beneath the local church. Sir Roger de Waybrook left England to take part in the Crusades, but died in a local brawl before getting even halfway there.
* ChurchMilitant - Uncle Peregrine's fantasy of a pan-European Catholic uprising against the Nazis.
* CoolOldGuy - Brigadier Ritchie-Hook, and probably Colonel Trotter.
** Guy's father, referred to only as Mr Crouchback
* CoolSword - The Sword of Stalingrad, commissioned by the King on behalf of the British people, to acknowledge the sacrifice of the Soviet forces at Stalingrad. Subverted by the arcane discussion about whether the emblem on the hilt is in fact, the wrong way up ( which in fact, it is )
* CulturedWarrior - Guy certainly, but also somewhat subverted by Ludovic, who writes poetry, keeps a diary, refers to his binoculars as "opera glasses", and originally trained as a cavalryman. Upheld by Frank de Souza, who cannot finish a sentence without invoking Shakespeare.
* DeadpanSnarker - Ludovic, and to a smaller extent Crouchback.
* DirtyCommunists - Frank de Souza, the Croatian Partisans, Sir Ralph Brompton, and roughly half of the Hazardous Offensive Operations division. Mind you, Waugh was so right-wing by the time of writing he seems to think Britain itself was turning into a Communist country.
** O, that you should be living at this time!
* EndOfAnAge - [[spoiler: Guy's father, uncle, and wife are all dead]], London is full of foreign soldiers, Britain is the junior partner in a web of alliances that includes the Soviet Union (which Guy felt was part of the 'great enemy in sight at last, huge, far-off, and hateful'.
** also the latter stages of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook's story arc, from his gross misjudgement in leading an unauthorised raid to his suicidal charge in Yugoslavia
* FatIdiot - Major Hound
* FauxAffablyEvil - Julia Stitch, Ludovic, Brompton again.
* GoldDigger - Virginia Troy, and doesn't she just know it?
* KnightInShiningArmor: Guy pretty obviously thinks of himself as this.
** inverted by Ivor Claire, who is apparently a veritable Galahad but commits the military crime of boarding a ship for Egypt, against orders, during the Fall of Crete. Whether this is cowardice, or a case of OnlySaneMan, is a matter of opinion.
* MilesGloriosus - Trimmer, much of the time. Subverted in that no-one who actually knows him, believes a word of it but all collude in the fiction for their various purposes
* ThoseWackyNazis - Notable by their absence. Apart from the occasional doodlebug, and the Stukas in Crete, only one German soldier (a despatch rider on a Cretan dirt road) ever appears.
* UpperClassTwit - Apthorpe, Major Hound. Subverted by Apthorpe's increasingly turning into a Cloudcuckoolander, culminating in TheReveal by "Chatty" Corner, who actually knew Apthorpe in his African days
** General Whale could be this, nicknamed "Brides-in-the-bath" by his subordinates due to the general insanity and lethal character of his various operational plans, none of which ( apart from "Popgun" ) are ever seen to be realised.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse - Major Hound's disappearance. After Hound and Ludovic spend some time off-screen during the retreat, only Ludovic appears at the evacuation beach [[spoiler: wearing Hound's shoulder badges]]. Ludovic merely states to Crouchback a long time later that he cannot remember anything, but his slowly growing mental instability suggests that he knows more than he is telling.
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