WORLD WAR TWO
WW2 lasted from 1939 to 1945. This time was very busy and dangerous and unforgettable and productive for Evelyn. And he revisited these years in the late 1940s, the '50s and early '60s in order to write four novels about them.
So the next main section of this website, PIERS COURT PAPERS, parallels this one. In fact, I've pulled the Men at Arms chapters out of it - and the first of the Officers and Gentlemen essays - then I've added several more essays to complete this section of Waugh's war experience.
In a sense this section rushes us through the second half of Evelyn's life. I much prefer the PIERS COURT PAPERS which is a saunter through Evelyn's thirties, forties and fifties. He was a family-man first and a soldier second. He was an intellectual first, a family-man second and a soldier third. He was a drinker first, an intellectual second, a family-man third, and a soldier fourth. You get the idea.
But he was a soldier. And these next few chapters takes us though his soldiering and a defining event of the 20th Century.
