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The Thin Red Line is American author James Jones's fourth novel. It draws heavily on Jones's experiences at the Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse during World War II's Guadalcanal campaign. The author served in the United States Army's 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division.
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Feb 9, 1998 · The Thin Red Line: A Novel. Paperback – February 9, 1998. by James Jones (Author), Francine Prose (Foreword) 4.3 912 ratings. Book 2 of 3: The World War II Trilogy. See all formats and editions. They are the men of C-for-Charlie company—“Mad” 1st Sgt. Eddie Welsh, Pvt. 1st Class Don Doll, Pvt. John Bell, Capt. James Stein, Cpl. Fife ...
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The Thin Red Line continues the futile tradition of telling the truth about warfare. Steven Crane and Norman Mailer are among James Jones’s American predecessors but the genre is universal. The scandalous truth is that war is tedious, sordid, soul-destroying, and sexual as well as harmful to life.
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Dec 29, 1998 · The Thin Red Line : Every Man Fights His Own War Audio Cassette – Abridged, December 29, 1998. by James Jones (Author), Joe Mantegna (Reader) 4.3 887 ratings. See all formats and editions. Kindle $11.99 Read with our Free App. Hardcover $31.07 6 New from $29.99. Paperback $17.99 83 Used from $1.50 24 New from $10.38 2 Collectible from $6.00.
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His book The Thin Red Line demonstrates a mastery of the craft by telling essentially the same story through the eyes, hands, wounds and deaths of many different men as World War Two raged in the South Pacific.
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“[A] major novel of combat in World War II . . . reminiscent of Stephen Crane in The Red Badge of Courage.”—The Christian Science Monitor “The Thin Red Line moves so intensely and inexorably that it almost seems like the war it is describing.”—The New York Times Book Review
Feb 9, 1998 · James Jones. Random House Publishing Group, Feb 9, 1998 - Fiction - 544 pages. They are the men of C-for-Charlie company—“Mad” 1st Sgt. Eddie Welsh, Pvt. 1st Class Don Doll, Pvt. John Bell, Capt....
