The end of WW II finds Guy Crouchback, once again in England, radiating despair from behind his desk. But then his training as a commando and his facility with Italian land him one last assignment--liaison work, not in Italy, but with Tito's forces in Yugoslavia.

"[Waugh's] military trilogy has much to recommend it. The wit endures; at full strength wit is rage made bearable, and useful." (The New York Times)