- Fiction, Fiction in English, World War, 1939-1945, American fiction (fictional works by one author)
They are the men of C-for-Charlie Company--"Mad" 1stSgt. Eddie Welsh, SSgt. Don Doll, Pvt. John Bell, Capt. James Stein, Cpl. Fife, and dozens more just like them--infantrymen in "this man's army" who are about to land grim and white-faced on an atoll in the Pacific called Guadalcanal.
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Earnest, grave, overwhelming and bleak.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- James Jones
- First published
- 1962
- Pages
- 477
- Publisher
- Fontana, Avon, Chivers
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- English, German, Portuguese, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9783596312207
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“The two transports had sneaked up from the south in the first graying flush of dawn, their cumbersome mass cutting smoothly through the water whose still greater mass bore them silently, themselves as gray as the dawn which camouflaged them.”
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