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A sober and telling end of a classic series Thomas Stamper After having read FROM HERE TO ETERNITY and THE THIN RED LINE, I couldn't figure out what would be so interesting about an army war hospital(the setting for WHISTLE). I was dead wrong proving once again that a great writer makes anything interesting.The guys are back from Gradualcanal and suffering both physical and psychological effects. They are happy to be alive and asham. A nostalgic and wisftful final book James Jones, wrote this, the last book of his World War II trilogy (From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line) right before his early death at 55. The men have returned to Tennessee from guadalcanal as casualties. These are basically the same characters from the earlier books, carried forward with different names. As their physical ailments heal, we begin to realize that thei. Mark Ganin said Worthwhile Conclusion to War Trilogy. I found this book to be a worthwhile conclusion to the trilogy featuring "From Here to Eternity" and "The Thin Red Line". I read all three in 1999 and can say that James Jones has written a masterful set. The book is a pioneer in its field because it deals with the recovery, rehabilitation and the daily routines of wounded soldiers at a hospital in Luxor (a fictional city on

These men are broken by war and haunted by what they learned there of the savagery of mankind. As the men on deck cheer their imminent return to their families, wives, and favorite girls, four stay below, unable to join in the celebration. On board are hundreds of injured soldiers, survivors of the American infantry’s battle to wrest the South Seas from the Japanese Empire. The third novel in Jones’s classic World War II trilogy: a moving story of four World War II infantrymen coping with the difficulties of recovering at an army hospital and learning to readjust to the home frontAt the end of a long journey across the Pacific, a ship catches sight of California. As they convalesce in a hospital in Memphis, the pain of that knowledge will torment them far worse than any wound. The third of James Jones’s epics based on his life in the army, this posthumously published novel draws on his own experiences to depict the horrors of war and their persistence even after the jungle is left behind.

“Jones was a powerful naturalistic chronicler of certain essential realities of warfare and of the responses of men at war.” —The New York Times Book Review

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