Evelyn Waugh’s ‘Officers and Gentlemen’ – a surprising discovery

Browsing in a secondhand bookshop yesterday, I found a lovely first edition of Evelyn Waugh’s Officers and Gentlemen, the second book in his Sword of Honour trilogy. Except, to my great surprise, I discovered that the trilogy might never have been written:

I’m glad Waugh changed his mind because the trilogy is one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century. I highly recommend it.