Murray would later provide Waugh with the model and first name for his anti-hero Basil Seal, star of the novels Black Mischief and Put Out More Flags.
Waugh later lampooned his employer by portraying him as Lord Copper in Scoop and as Lord Monomark in both Put Out More Flags and Vile Bodies.
The novel is set during the first year of the Second World War, and follows the wartime activities of characters introduced in Waugh's earlier satirical novels Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies and Black Mischief.
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The title of the novel comes from the saying of an anonymous Chinese sage, quoted and translated by Lin Yutang in The Importance of Living (1937).
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Put Out More Flags is dedicated to Randolph Churchill, who found a service commission for Waugh during the Second World War.
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