Showing The Soldier's Art by Anthony Powell

The eighth novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time.

At the start of 1941, Jenkins is stationed at divisional HQ and allocated to lowly F Mess with the obnoxious Captain Biggs. During an exercise Jenkins has dinner with General Liddament who recommends him to Finn. Widmerpool is humiliated by Colonel Hogbourne-Johnson, and plots revenge. Stringham turns up as Mess Waiter for F Mess...