''The Soldier's Art'' is the eighth novel in

Anthony Powell Anthony Dymoke Powell ( ; 21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was an English novelist best known for his 12-volume work ''A Dance to the Music of Time'', published between 1951 and 1975. It is on the list of longest novels in English. Powell' ...

's twelve-volume masterpiece ''

A Dance to the Music of Time ''A Dance to the Music of Time'' is a 12-volume ''roman-fleuve'' by English writer Anthony Powell, published between 1951 and 1975 to critical acclaim. The story is an often comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in Eng ...

'', and the second in the war trilogy. It was published in 1966, and touches on themes of separation and unanticipated loss. It is dedicated to Powell's friend

Roy Fuller Roy Broadbent Fuller CBE (11 February 1912 – 27 September 1991) was an English writer, known mostly as a poet. He was born at Failsworth, Lancashire to lower-middle-class parents Leopold Charles Fuller and his wife Nellie (1888–1949; née ...

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* 1966 British novels Novels by Anthony Powell A Dance to the Music of Time Fiction set in 1941 Heinemann (publisher) books {{1960s-novel-stub