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  Guy Crouchback's disillusion: Crete, Beevor, and the Soviet alliance in Sword of Honour
  Gallagher, Donat (2011) Guy Crouchback's disillusion: Crete, Beevor, and the Soviet alliance in Sword of Honour. In: A Handful of Mischief: new essays on Evelyn Waugh. Farileigh Dickinson University Press. Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Plymoutn, UK, pp. 172-219. PreviewImage (JPEG) (Book Cover)275KbPDF (Published Version) - Repository staff only - Requires a PDF viewer such as GSview, Xpdf or Adobe Acrobat Reader13Mb View at Publisher Website: http://www.fdupress.org/book_description...Abstract[Extract] The trynnous voice of fashion nowdays decrees that the crux of Evelyn Waugh's trilogy Sword of Honour (1965) shall be the evacuation of Crete in 1941. Antony Beevor has taught "everyone" to believe that during
  that evacuation Waugh's commanding officer, Colonel Robert Laycock, behaved badly. Ordered to provide a rearguard and to leave after other fighting forces had embarked, Laycock (Mr. Beevor says or implies) led a third of his commandos to the beach "early," withdrew the rest ofthe troops
  from their defensive positions soon afterward, "lied" to colleagues that he had received relevant orders, and "jumped the queue" in front of higher priority troops all this despite Layforce's having received no orders to
  leave Crete. As for Waugh, Beevor claims that he 'falsified the War Diary' to conceal Laycock's "arrogant disregard" of orders. The deceit allegedly caused him to develop a bad conscience, which led him to rail neurotically
  against the British effort on Crete and, later, to expose his own and Laycock's shame in Officers and Gentlemen (1955).ID Code:19029Item Type:Book Chapter (Research - B1)Keywords:Crete; Waugh; Beevor; Laycock; evacuation; sword of honourISBN:978-1-61147-048-2FoR Codes:20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2005 Literary Studies > 200503 British and Irish Literature @ 25%21 HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY > 2103 Historical Studies > 210305 British History @ 50%21 HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY > 2103 Historical Studies > 210303 Australian History (excl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) @ 25%SEO Codes:97 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology @ 75%97 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 970119 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing @ 25%Deposited On:17 Nov 2011 09:11Last Modified:02 Nov 2012 10:24Downloads:Total: 25Last 12 Months: 14Statistics:More StatisticsRepository Staff Only: item control page