Alec Waugh

Alec Waugh
Alec Waugh (1898–1981) was a British novelist and travel writer, best known as the older brother of author Evelyn Waugh. He wrote extensively about both his experiences during World War I and his travels, producing numerous novels and travel books. One of his most famous works is "Island in the Sun" (1955), which explores race relations in a fictional Caribbean island and was adapted into a popular film. Waugh is also credited with writing "The Loom of Youth" (1917), an early novel about boarding school life that caused controversy for its frank depiction of homosexuality.

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PREFACE TO NEW EDITION Books have their fates and this one's has been curious. I wrote it between January and March 1916, when I was seventeen and a half years old and in camp at Berkhamsted with the Inns of Court O.T.C. I loathed it there, everything about it, the impersonal military machine, the monotonous routine of drills and musketry, the endless foot-slogging, the perpetual petty... more...