Abstract
This paper aims at exploring the leitmotif of, disillusionment in themilitary life of, the protagonist, Guy Crouchback, in Men at ArmsWaugh’s first volume of a war trilogy, Sword of Honour, which isbased on his own experience of the Second World War. It is agrotesque black comedy on the scheme of a chivalric illusion,associated with severe loss of old battles and a series of anticlimacticmilitary defeats where the British-Indian troops fought against theTurks in 1915-1916 at Kut-al-Imara, a small town in the south of Iraq.
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