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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.
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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
1. A Great Starting Point. To those who actually read books and/or know of 20th century US literature, the title “The Thin Red Line” was already familiar as a well-remembered 1962 novel by James Jones.
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 ...
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 ...
The novel's title alludes to a line from Rudyard Kipling's poem "Tommy", from Barrack-Room Ballads, in which he calls Scottish foot soldiers "the thin red line of heroes", referring to the stand of the 93rd Regiment in the Battle of Balaclava of the Crimean War.
Aug 7, 1998 · "The Thin Red Line" was published in 1962 as the middle of James Jones' war-time trilogy that began with From Here to Eternity and concluded with Whistle, which he was working on at the time of...
