To the End of the War: Unpublished Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781453258231)

Never-before-published fiction by one of the finest war authors of the twentieth century

In 1943, a young soldier named James Jones returned from the Pacific, lightly wounded and psychologically tormented by the horrors of Guadalcanal. When he was well enough to leave the hospital, he went AWOL rather than return to service, and began work on a novel of the World War II experience. Jones's AWOL period was brief, but he returned to the novel at war's end, bringing him to the attention of Maxwell Perkins, the legendary editor of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. Jones would then go on to write From Here to Eternity, the National Book Award-winning novel that catapulted him into the ranks of the literary elite. Now, for the first time, Jones's earliest writings are presented here, as a collection of stories about man and war, a testament to the great artist he was about to become.

Author: James Jones
ISBN-10: 145325823X
ISBN-13: 9781453258231
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLC
Language: English
Published: 10/11/2011
Pages: 222
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.53h x 5.56w x 0.57d