The Thin Red Line - James Jones [BROS]

In that gruesome stretch sixty thousand Americans made the jump from boat to beach, and one in nine did not return. James Jones fought in that battle, and The Thin Red Line is his haunting portrait of men and war. The novel portrays battle realistically, including several particularly gruesome acts depicted as natural responses to the soldiers' environment...The novel explores the idea that modern war is an extremely personal and lonely experience in which each soldier suffers the emotional horrors of war by himself and captures the honor and savagery of men.