a compelling and compassionate story.' - Los Angeles Times 'A blockbuster of a book.

In this magnificent but brutal classic of a soldier's life, James Jones portrays the courage, violence and passions of men and women who live by unspoken codes and with unutterable despair.in the most important American novel to come out of World War II, a masterpiece that captures as no ther the honor and savagery of men. Both Warden and Prewitt are bound by a common bond: the Army is their heart and blood. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he's risking his career to have an affair with the commanding officer's wife.

But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets 'the treatment' that may break him or kill him. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. Army’s Officer Candidate School Hall of Fame.Book Synopsis Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Additionally, he was the 2015 recipient of the Goodpaster Award, presented each year to a distinguished American soldier-scholar. His historical fiction won the American Library Association's Boyd Award for Literary Excellence an unprecedented three times and also received the Herodotus Award and the Hammett Prize. As a soldier, journalist, and researcher, he has experience in more than seventy countries, covering various wars and trouble spots. Army enlisted man and career officer, he served in Infantry and military intelligence units before becoming a foreign area officer for the dying Soviet Union and the new Russia. He has published more than a thousand columns, articles, and essays here and abroad. Ralph Peters is the author of thirty-three books, including works on strategy and security affairs, as well as best-selling, prize-winning novels. And every young NCO worth his rucksack aspires to be “the Warden,” Jones’ fictional first sergeant, even if he has never heard of this book (or seen the films that followed). The author’s experiences at Schofield Barracks on Oahu on the eve of Pearl Harbor let him capture the organization and the times in a timeless manner: He caught the spirit of the grunt as no one else has done. Regulations have changed, as have accepted behaviors, technologies, uniforms, rations…yet, today’s soldiers remain these soldiers. Yes, it’s a novel, but this is the finest book, fiction or non-fiction, ever written about the United States Army.

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