Whistle Author:james Jones This novel of World War II is James Jones' masterpiece. Whistle is the third novel in his great trilogy of World War II, begun with From Here to Eternity and continued with The Thin Red Line. What is achieved in the three books is something unique in American literature; but Whistle will stand in its own right as a towering novel, a book that ... more »will profoundly affect anyone who comes to it.
Whistle tells the story of four men from the same infantry company, veterans of combat in the South Pacific and among the first large waves of wounded sent home, brought back by hospital ship to California and then to an Army hospital in the South....
Whistle deals with the great things of life--honor, courage, sacrifice, friendship, love-- and in so doing transcends finally the theme of war and becomes a monument in literature to -in words from the novel- "this flawed, misbegotten, miscreated race of valuable creatures."« less