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Category Archives: Men at Arms
Roundup: A Legacy, a Plaque, 2 Lists and a Mystery
British Heritage Travel Magazine has published a profile of Alexander Waugh entitled “A Legacy Revisited”. This is by Stephen G and is datelined 29 March 2018. It opens with a brief summary of the ongoing difficulties of securing and restoring … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Alexander Waugh, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, London, Men at Arms, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged British Heritage Travel Magazine, Canonbury Society Newsletter, Entertainment Weekly, Gay Kamasutra, Hollywood novels, Islington, ShortList.com, war novels
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Histories: A Movement and a Prize
This week’s issue of the National Review contains a brief article assessing the status of William F Buckley’s conservative movement 10 years after his death. This is by Charles Correll III and begins by defining the questions faced today by … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms, Newspapers
Tagged Charles Correll III, Conservatism, James Tait Black Prize, National Review, The Scotsman
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Roundup: From Seven Deadly Sins to Four Brandy Alexanders
–The Spanish newspaper El Mundo has a story about the career of novelist Ian Fleming, best known for his James Bond novels and films. This begins with a discussion of Flemingâs less well-known role as International Editor of The Sunday … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Men at Arms, Newspapers
Tagged Alan Hollinghurst, Belfast Telegraph, Daily Mail, Dan Hannan, El Mundo, Ian Fleming, Jalta.nl, Letters Live, New York Times, Quartzy, Stephen Fry, Washington Examiner
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CĂ©line, Muriel Spark and Lloyd Cole
Frederic Raphael is still best known for the TV adaptation of his own 1976 novel The Glittering Prizes, which is often compared with Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. Indeed, it is not too much to say that the popular and critical success … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Television, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, Vile Bodies, World War II
Tagged Celine, Frederic Raphael, Guardian, Lancashire Post, Lloyd Cole, Muriel Spark, The Commotions, The Glittering Prizes, TLS
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Waugh Novel Among Abebooks’ 2017 Top Sellers
Abebooks has announced its highest priced books for 2017. A set of Waugh’s war trilogy came in at #16 and sold for $12,500. Here is the seller’s description: First editions of each volume in the author’s acclaimed Sword of Honour … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh, First Editions, Items for Sale, Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Abebooks. J F Powers
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Joan Didion Reviews Sword of Honour
In an article posted on the website Acculturated, Nic Rowan discusses novelist and essayist Joan Didion’s early career of reviewing books for the National Review in the 1960s. Rowan claims that her later career cannot be fully understood without considering … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Acculturated, Joan Didion, National Review, Nic Rowan
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Waugh and the RAF
Foreign Policy magazine is publishing excerpts from a new book by Thomas Ricks entitled Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom. The latest installment discusses the RAF pilots who prevented a German invasion in the Battle of Britain and who were predominantly … Continue reading
Posted in Men at Arms, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, World War II
Tagged Battle of Britain, Foreign Policy, RAF, Thomas Ricks
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Death Comes for the Comic Novelist
The interactive website Ranker has set up a listing that describes 13 celebrities who died on the toilet. This seemingly tasteless and pointless compilation by Carly Silver is part of Ranker’s subject category entitled “Celebrity Deaths.” Most of the deaths listed are of historical figures, … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms
Tagged Dappled Things, Graham Greene, Martin Stannard, Ranker
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Author Richard Adams Dies at 96
Richard Adams who is best known for his first novel, Watership Down, has died at the age of 96. The book is about rabbits and was derived from stories he had told his children, but it was also based on his own experience … Continue reading
Posted in Men at Arms, Newspapers, Vile Bodies, World War II
Tagged Daily Telegraph, International Business Times, New York Times, Orlando Sentinel, Richard Adams, Watership Down
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Telegraph Publishes Remembrance of Waugh
In today’s Sunday Telegraph, Nicholas Shakespeare writes a remembrance of Waugh. Shakespeare never apparently met Waugh personally but wrote and directed the three-part 198os BBC Arena documentary of Waugh. He is also editor of the Everyman edition of Waugh’s collected travel … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Documentaries, Interviews, Lancing, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Television Programs, Vile Bodies
Tagged BBC Arena, Dudley Carew, Graham Greene, Nicholas Shakespeare, Sunday Telegraph
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