In the novel trilogy “Officers and Gentlemen” (“Sword of Honor” CM) 19521961) English writer Evelyn Waugh, known for his tendency to pass murderous-ironic sentences not only to individual characters but also the whole , estates.......................................... Draws a relentlessly satirical look at the beauty and pride of Britain her army. [ Tracing the fate of Lieutenant, and later Captain Guy Crouchbeck, serving in the Royal Corps of Alberds during the Second World War, the author debunks the state myth about the military - "builders of the empire"...... Naive admiration of the main character "armed people" and his lofty dreams of valor the deeds and service of the fatherland gradually give way to acute disappointment , which culminates in the "unconditional surrender" of Crouchbeck's former romantic ideals in the face of the unsightly reality of the decrepit war machine of "good old England" - with its bureaucracy careerism, Corruption and Corruption , Stupid , by , cowardice and sometimes senseless cruelty …