A fugitive soldier who prefers chocolate to bullets upends a romantic Balkan household. Shaw's anti-heroic comedy of war and love.
Books mentioned in Arms and the Man (1)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: “He did it like an operatic tenor--a regular handsome fellow, with flashing eyes and lovely moustache, shouting a war-cry and charging like Don Quixote at the windmills.”
Books that mention Arms and the Man (1)
Fury by Salman Rushdie: “He reminded Solanka of Sergius, the stiff-backed officer in Shaw's Arms and the Man.”