This hardback book titled "Put Out More Flags" is a first edition published in 1942 by Chapman & Hall in London. Written by acclaimed author Evelyn Waugh, it falls under the category of general and literary fiction and has special attributes that make it a collectable item.
The story is set in the first year of the Second World War and follows the activities of a cast of mostly upper-class British characters,some of them reintroduced from Waughs earlier satirical novels "Decline and Fall", " Vile Bodies" and "Black Mischief". Facing the dormant conflict of the Phoney War and then the cataclysmic events of 1940, peacetime lives of boredom and frivolity give way to a sense of purpose and solidarity...