دانلود کتاب The Thin Red Line

This book will make you experience the mind-numbing horror of front line combat on Guadalcanal over a three month period in 1943. As the book opens, you join Charlie company as it prepares to enter the battle for Guadalcanal, which is already well underway. The entire book stays with Charlie company as it trains, drinks, fights and dies over a relatively small group of hills north of the airfield.This war isn't romanticized in any way. You don't like the soldiers, but you respect and admire them. You don't like the commanders, but you feel the horrible responsibility they bear as they send their men to certain death in Japanese machine gun fields. You don't want to emulate anyone in this book, but you compassionately understand what drives each man to respond to his predicament as he does -- from the field cook who sees combat as his way out of kitchen drudgery, to the corporal/ clerk who is looking for any half-honorable way to get off the front line.The characters are cycled in and out of "Charlie" company as they chewed up by the battle. The only thing that retains continuity is the Army and Charlie Company. The battle in this book is not won by clean, heroic icons of American manhood, but by the slow forward grind of an organic army, fueled by the twitching anxiety, fear and despiration of thousands of young men.Although this book does contain its share of blood and guts (sometimes literally), it is mainly a psychological study of the effects of combat on the human mind and personality. It's written with an intensity and richness of detail that could come only from someone who knows the subject first hand, and the psychological aspects are brought out in the context of a gripping narrative. Far from idealizing WWII soldiers into invincible heroes, Jones shows them in their full humanity, from the cowardly to the courageous, and even to the brutally reckless. He also shows how the successful, battle hardened soldier is formed, and what some of the costs are. And on top of all this, he gives an accurate and often humorous description of internal workings of all armies, which are as timeless as war itself. It's one book whose readers won't soon forget it.The thin red line is a stunning compliment to the classic novel from here to eternity. the men of c-for-charlie company are terrifyingly real. when jones describes the fetid heat and sweltering humidity of guadalcanal, the reader can feel sweat dripping messily down his own back. jones is one of the finest authors i have ever encountered at revealing the instrinsic cowardice and bravery of men at war. truly an inspired novel. one may have to work to get through it (it is as dense as the jungle itself), but once through, the reader is very handsomely rewarded. if you ever wanted to know what it is like to risk death in a far away land, this novel will tell you. sensational. i can not recommend it enough.