Category Archives: World War II

Laycock Presentation Copies For Sale

Posted on April 19, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Rare book seller Peter Harrington lists as new arrivals several presentation copies of books given to Robert and Angela Laycock. Robert was one of Waugh’s commanding officers in WWII. The first is a series of four copies of books sent to Angela … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s Cities

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Evelyn Waugh’s descriptions of two cities he had visited have been quoted in recent profiles. The first is Bari in Italy which was the staging point in WWII for missions to Yugoslavia such as that to which Waugh was assigned … Continue reading →

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Wodehouse Redivivus

Posted on February 27, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

A book blog has posted an article describing Evelyn Waugh’s role in the re-establishment of the reputation of P.G. Wodehouse. Waugh’s actions are compared with previous efforts of George Bernard Shaw on behalf of Henrik Ibsen and Walker Percy who … Continue reading →

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Time’s Error

Posted on February 26, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The Weekly Standard‘s “Scrapbook” column had one of the more interesting comments on the Time magazine affair. (See yesterday’s post.) They speculate on what may have been the cause and, after rejecting several hypotheses, conclude with this: Then again, it could … Continue reading →

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Guy Crouchback Inspiration for U.S. Conservatives

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The current issue of The American Conservative magazine carries an article about the leaders of the post war conservative revival in the U.S. This is on the occasion of the publication of a book about one of them–Russell Kirk:American Conservative by … Continue reading →

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Waugh Passage Included in Book on Post-War Germany

Posted on January 26, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

A new book edited by Lara Feigel collects writings from various sources describing Germany in the aftermath of WWII. This is Bitter Taste of Victory to be published in the U.K. on 28 January by Bloomsbury. Feigel is the author of … Continue reading →

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Waugh, Boyd and Manning

Posted on January 15, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Evelyn Waugh is mentioned several times in an interview of novelist, critic  and screenwriter William Boyd published in the Australian Financial Review. The interviewer (Joe Aston) notes that Boyd’s fiction has been compared with Waugh’s from his very first published novel … Continue reading →

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Tanks, but No Tanks

Posted on December 31, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

A brief history of the Battle of Crete has been posted on a military history weblog. In it there is a brief mention of Waugh and his Commando unit in action. This occurs near the end of the battle: After … Continue reading →

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Waugh Included in “More Letters of Note”

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Waugh’s 1942 letter to his wife recounting the disastrous results of his army unit’s attempt to remove a tree stump from the garden of a Scottish aristocrat has now been included in a collection entitled More Letters of Note, edited by Shaun … Continue reading →

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Fitzroy Maclean Commemorated on St. Andrew’s Day

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Fitzroy Maclean, Waugh’s commanding officer in Yugoslavia, was commemorated yesterday in an editorial on the Foreign and Colonial Office weblog. The occasion was St. Andrew’s Day. Maclean was, needless to say, Scottish. Here’s the opening paragraph: ‘A man of daring … Continue reading →

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