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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. Novel
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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.
- James Jones
- 1962
Dec 18, 2016 · Corporal James Jones was 21 when he first saw combat on Guadalcanal; it deeply affected his writing. (James Jones Literary Society) [dropcap]J[/dropcap]ames Jones’s The Thin Red Line is considered one of the finest combat novels to emerge from World War II.
- Rasheeda Smith
In the years since its publication, “The Thin Red Line”, which got good initial reviews, has gained in stature to the point where many consider it Jones’ masterwork. Though its story of battle in the Pacific during World War II is very literal, it is also the story of the war as it exists within the minds of the individual combatants.
These questions form the basis of Terence Malick’s 1998 war drama The Thin Red Line. On one level, The Thin Red Line is about a U. S. Army division’s attempt to take a hill on the island of Guadalcanal; however, the film also explores many age-old questions, including “How did evil enter the world?”, “Why are humans at war with nature ...
Apr 23, 2010 · The herculean struggle to get Terrence Malick's first movie in two decades–a film version of James Jones's war epic The Thin Red Line–to the screen was complicated not only by its elusive ...
Sep 26, 2010 · The Thin Red Line, arguably the greatest war film ever made, ended two decades of silence from Terrence Malick, cinema’s wandering auteur. The silence wasn’t entirely self-imposed, since during this time he tried to launch a few productions—including a tale of nineteenth-century psychoanalysis and a Jerry Lee Lewis biopic—that didn’t ...
Apr 10, 2023 · THE THIN RED LINE was adapted from army veteran James Jones’s 1962 novel of the same name, which was based on his combat experience on Guadalcanal and was regarded by figures including Paul Fussell and Sir John Keegan as the greatest American novel about World War II.
