Book description
Alec Waugh, who served in the last war as a regular army officer, was
recalled to his regiment in September 1939. After a few months of
regimental duties he has filled a succession of Junior Staff
appointment, with the B. E.F. in France, in London during the Blitz,
with the M. E.F in Syria and Egypt and latterly with the Persia and Iraq
command. This book is the narrative of his four years in khaki. It makes
no attempt to be sensational, but the range and variety of those
experiences have provided ample scope for that capacity to convey
character, atmosphere and landscape which has made Alec Waugh so popular
a novelist. Alec Waugh, who served in the last war as a regular army
officer, was recalled to his regiment in September 1939. After a few
months of regimental duties he has filled a succession of Junior Staff
appointment, with the B. E.F. in France, in London during the Blitz,
with the M. E.F in Syria and Egypt and latterly with the Persia and Iraq
command. This book is the narrative of his four years in khaki. It makes
no attempt to be sensational, but the range and variety of those
experiences have provided ample scope for that capacity to convey
character, atmosphere and landscape which has made Alec Waugh so popular
a novelist.
