Whistle Author:James Jones This novel of World War II is James Jones' masterpiece. It occupied him for years. With the controlled unrelenting power that only a major novelist can attain and with insights that are sometimes heartrending, Jones holds the reader gripped as he show what war does to all men, including the brave ones who take pride in their skill as soldiers.
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Whistle tells the store of four men from the same infantry company, veterans of combat in the South Pacific and among the fist large waves of wounded sent home, brought back by hospital ship to California, and then to an Army hospital in the South.« less