He served in the British armed forces throughout the Second World War, first in the Royal Marines and then in the Royal Horse Guards. He travelled extensively in the 1930s, often as a special newspaper correspondent he reported from Abyssinia at the time of the 1935 Italian invasion. As a young man, he acquired many fashionable and aristocratic friends and developed a taste for country house society. He worked briefly as a schoolmaster before he became a full-time writer. Waugh was the son of a publisher, educated at Lancing College and then at Hertford College, Oxford. He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961). John Waugh ( / ˈ iː v l ɪ n ˈ s ɪ n dʒ ən ˈ w ɔː/ 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer.
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