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Category Archives: World War II
Waugh Makes Appearance in SAS Book
Evelyn Waugh makes an appearance in a new book Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre that is excerpted in The Daily Beast. This is a history of the Special Air Service brigade (SAS) and its founder David Stirling. Waugh knew Stirling … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Ben Macintyre, David Stirling, Special Air Service, The Daly Beast
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Macaskie Twins Surface at London Book Launch
A posting on the Ronald Knox Society of North America website describes a book launch in London earlier this week. The book is edited by Francesca Knox and is entitled Ronald Knox: A Man for All Seasons. It is a collection … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Events, London, Ronald Knox, World War II
Tagged Francesca Knox, Heythrop College, Ronald Knox Society of North America
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Waugh, Catch-22 and the Demented Governess
Many of us will have read Waugh’s 1961 letter to Nina Bourne, who worked for US publisher Simon & Schuster. In the letter, Waugh politely and very humorously declines to give them a blurb promoting their new book Catch-22, the first novel … Continue reading
Posted in Humo(u)r, Letters, World War II
Tagged Catch-22, Nina Bourne, Robert Gottlieb
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Waugh in the Blogosphere
Several bloggers, especially those with a religious theme, make fairly regular mentions of Waugh and his works. Yesterday, a blogger who specializes in Eastern Christianity posted a review of Waugh’s novel Helena on the day that the Church commemorates the Invention … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Catholicism, Helena, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged G.K. Chesterton, Weblogs
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Radio Times Article on 1967 BBC TV Adaptation
The director of the BBC’s 1967 TV adaptation of Waugh’s Sword of Honour wrote an article in Radio Times on the occasion of its rebroadcast in November 1968. Donald McWhinnie, “Three From Evelyn Waugh,” Radio Times, 28 November 1968, p. … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Sword of Honour, Television, Television Programs, World War II
Tagged BBC, British Film Institute, Donald McWhinnie, Radio Times
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Waugh and Hemingway and “Beat-up Old Bastards”
An article in The Huffington Post earlier this week discusses Ernest Hemingway’s claims to have killed 122 “Krauts” during WWII and compares that claim with those of Chris Kyle (subject of the autobiography and film American Sniper) to have killed 160 enemy … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged American Sniper, Ernest Hemingway, The Huffington Post
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BBC Posts Photo of Capt. Waugh at Brains Trust
BBC Radio 4 has posted on its Twitter page a photo of Waugh taken at his appearance in a wartime broadcast of its popular Home Service radio program called Brains Trust. The posting is in connection with National Book Lovers Day … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Letters, Radio, Radio Programs, Twitter, World War II
Tagged BBC Home Service, Brains Trust
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Biography Reviewed in Herald
The new biography of Evelyn Waugh by Philip Eade is reviewed in the (Glasgow) Herald (now rebranded simply, and rather pompously, as “The Herald” but still published in Glasgow) by Richard Strachan. He points out that a disproportionate part of the book … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Black Mischief, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Oxford, Remote People, World War II
Tagged Glasgow Herald, Martin Stannatd, Philip Eade, Richard Strachan, Selina Hastings
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FT Reviews Waugh Biography
Literary journalist Suzi Feay reviews Philip Eade’s biography in the latest edition of the Financial Times’ book pages. Feay recently moderated the Waugh panel at this year’s Oxford Literary Festival, which was sponsored by the FT. While recognizing, as have … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged Financial Times, Philip Eade, Suzi Feay
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