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The Thin Red Line

Name: The Thin Red Line
Author: James Jones

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.

“War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.”

James Jones book The Thin Red Line

Source: The Thin Red Line

“If I never meet you
In this life
Let me feel the lack
A glance from your eyes
Then my life
Will be yours”

James Jones book The Thin Red Line

Source: The Thin Red Line

“There's only a thin red line between the sane and the mad.”

James Jones book The Thin Red Line

"Old midwestern saying" created by Jones for his story, as stated in James Jones: An American Literary Orientalist Master (1998) by Steven R. Carter
The Thin Red Line (1962)

“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 s gray as the dawn which camouflaged them.”

James Jones book The Thin Red Line

First lines
The Thin Red Line (1962)

“This book is cheerfully dedicated to those greatest and most heroic of all human endeavors, WAR and WARFARE; may they never cease to give us the pleasure, excitement and adrenal stimulation that we need, or provide us with the heroes, the presidents and the leaders, the monuments and museums which we erect to them in the name of PEACE.”

James Jones book The Thin Red Line

Dedication
The Thin Red Line (1962)