Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets "the treatment" that may break him or kill him. First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he's risking his career to have an affair with the commanding officer's wife. Both Warden and Prewitt are bound by a common bond: the Army is their heart and blood . . .and, possibly, their death. In this magnificent but brutal classic of a soldier's life, James Jones portrays the courage, violence and passions of men and women who live by unspoken codes and with unutterable despair. . .in the most important American novel to come out of World War II, a masterpiece that captures as no ther the honor and savagery of men.
La Trilogía de la Segunda Guerra Mundial Serie
Esta épica saga de guerra sigue las experiencias de los soldados estadounidenses durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Las novelas representan la cruda realidad del conflicto, centrándose en sus luchas internas, la camaradería y las pérdidas ante una brutalidad inimaginable. Estas obras ofrecen una profunda mirada a la resiliencia humana y el costo de la guerra, adentrándose bajo la superficie de las grandes batallas en los dramas personales de los individuos.
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- 556 páginas
- 20 horas de lectura
"The third novel in Jones's classic World War II trilogy."--Page 4 of cover