Men at Arms - Evelyn Waugh

Paperback book
Penguin 1967 (Copyright 1952, First Penguin 1964)

Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers.  His spirits high, he sees all the trimmings but none of the action.  And his first campaign, an abortive affair on the West African coastline, ends with an escapade that seriously blots his Halberdier copybook.  Men at Arms is the first novel in Waugh's brilliant Sword of Honour trilogy recording the tumultuous wartime adventures of Guy Crouchback ("the finest work of fiction in English to emerge from World War II" -Atlantic Monthly), which also comprises Officers and Gentlemen and Unconditional Surrender.

Condition:
The book is in good condition for its age.  The cover has a diagonal crease across the front, a couple of slightly creased / bent corners, slight edge and corner wear, faint vertical creases and slight bowing to the spine, small creases around the edges and faint surface marks.  Inside, the book has a small inscription on the first page, a faint stain to the outside edges of the pages, minor marks and creasing  and slight age browning especially to the edges.  The pages appear to be in reasonably tight and clean condition.