The dance of the music of time continues and spring and summer are followed by autumn. If the previous volume closed with the war in the making, the three novels that make up this third installment of Anthony Powell's extraordinary narrative fresco are set between 1940 and 1945, during World War II. But to the warlike conflict that frames this volume are added other conflicts, those of power and personal hatred in the military sphere and those of the heart in the various stories of love and heartbreak that are woven and unwound between the characters. Jenkins is called up, joins his Welsh regiment as a lieutenant and lives much of the war in the rear, surrounded by inept and alcoholic officers, while the obese and careerist Widmerpool, who has made a career in the army, plans his revenge. against a colonel who has offended you. And next to them appear Tolland, Priscilla, Pamela Fitton, and Jean... England is a hotbed of resistance from other countries who have taken refuge there waiting to reconquer the continent from the Nazis. War fosters love affairs and disappointments, unleashes confrontations, causes suicides and causes casualties, because the German bombs that fall on London will kill some of the people Jenkins cherishes ... In this third volume of his monumental work, talent by Anthony Powell again shines in all its splendor, thanks to that wise combination of humor and drama, density and wit, which has earned him to be considered by critics as a kind of English Proust.