End of the Battle

"Evelyn Waugh is our present master of the hardened school for English comedy...He has a genius for very specialized social effrontery and its delight in outrage...Other books about the war have gone straight for the conventional--the battle. He, too, can negligently turn out a battle, but his interest is, fundamentally, the moralist's. His eye is trained on the flat detail of human folly, vanity and hypocrisy; and although he can be rightly called a wounded Romantic, he is a most patient and accurate observer. His glances at London life during the period are laconic and just....Waugh is able to be grave without difficulty for he has always been comic for serious reasons."Waugh, Evelyn is the author of 'End of the Battle' with ISBN 9780316926201 and ISBN 0316926205.