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Dec 18, 2016 · The Thin Red Line Between Fact and Fiction. Each man fought his own war—on Guadalcanal and in James Jones’s novel. by Paul Maggioni 12/18/2016. Fox Company at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii a month before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Corporal James Jones is standing in the second row, fourth from right.
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510. OCLC. 7640500. 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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The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American epic war film written and directed by Terrence Malick. It is the second film adaptation of the 1962 novel by James Jones, following the 1964 film. Telling a fictionalized version of the Battle of Mount Austen, which was part of the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War, it ...
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 ...
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.
Apr 10, 2023 · DID YOU KNOW: The phrase "the thin red line" originated from the Crimean War's 1894 Battle of Balaklava, during which Britain's 93rd Highland Regiment held off a much larger Russian force. The Times correspondent covering the battle described the regiment's formation as "a thin red streak tipped with a line of steel." The phrawse gained ...
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The Thin Red Line. : 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, and dozens more just like them—infantrymen who are about to land, grim and white-faced, on an atoll in the Pacific called Guadalcanal. This is their story, a shatteringly ...
