A review by anti_formalist12
Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh

3.0

Parts of this book are quite funny, in particular the whole section with Apthorpe and his Thunder-box, but I ended up feeling that this was a strange look at England in the opening year of the war. The main character, Guy Crouchback, seems to just be Waugh, and at times he is incredibly unlikeable. The whole time I was reading this I couldn't help comparing it to Patrick Hamilton's The Slaves of Solitude, a much better book about England at war. I might read more Waugh, but maybe not anytime soon.