Waugh fans have long indulged friendly arguments about the master's greatest work; a recent re-reading of The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman's Library) persuaded me (again) that these three books easily stand with A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited at the summit of Waugh's achievement, even as they brilliantly lay bare
the European cultural crisis that was vastly accelerated by World War I.
Not exact matches
Accordingly, as the
European economic
crisis continues to fuel nationalist ideology, STRATFOR expects the tension created by globalization and its social and
cultural effects to be an important element in the
European political scene in the coming years.