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Diamond Head Hawaii 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a championwelterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the companysboxing team he gets th... » 

Diamond Head Hawaii 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a championwelterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the companysboxing 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 hesrisking his career to have an affair with the commanding officers wife. BothWarden and Prewitt are bound by a common bond the Army is their heart andblood . . .and possibly their death. In this magnificent but brutalclassic of a soldiers life James Jones portrays the courage violence andpassions of men and women who live by unspoken codes and with unutterabledespair. . .in the most important American novel to come out of World War II amasterpiece that captures as no ther the honor and savagery of men. From thePaperback edition. «