English Catholics and the Proposed Soviet Alliance, 1939
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10085247 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Flint (0000-0002-5525-1785, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 468-484 |
| Publication date | 1997-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0469 • E-ISSN: 1469-7637 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022046900014883 |
| OpenAlex | W2119669031 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
By and large, the western world received the news of the Nazi-Soviet Pact (23 August 1939) with horror and a sick apprehension of what would come next. Quite different was the response of Guy Crouchback, the fictional hero of Evelyn Waugh's Sword of honour trilogy on the Second World War: News that shook the politicians and young poets of a dozen capitals brought deep peace to one English heart [He had] expected his country to go to war in a panic, for the wrong reasons or for no reason at all, with the wrong allies, in pitiful weakness. But now, splendidly, everything had become clear. The enemy at last was plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off. It was the Modern Age in arms. Whatever the outcome there was a place for him in that battle
Adversary · Alliance · Ancient history · Apprehension · Art · Art history · Battle · Feud · HERO · Knight · Literature · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Spanish Civil War · SWORD · Trilogy · World War II · Canadian Identity and History · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |