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Young, fatherless John Walter McElligott grows up in a rural Illinois farm community during World War II and is inescapably drawn to the men of the area who served in the war and returned. Out of their own respect for John Walter's father, who was killed on Guadalcanal, these veterans treat the boy with a calculated deference and are compelled to teach him their hard-earned lessons about life, responsibility, duty and honor.
Iwo Jima Marine veteran Jack Britton has carried the horror of combat and the loss of his young wife and his buddies with him for the past 60 years. Now, in the last 36 hours of his life in a hospital intensive care unit, he revisits those aspects of his life and grapples with his long-suffering questions about fate and self-doubt through a psychological phenomenon known as sundown syndrome.
An edited transcript of the 1999 James Jones Literary Society Symposium features preeminent voices of the World War II literary generation honoring James Jones (1921-1977), author of "From Here to Eternity," "The Thin Red Line" and "Some Came Running," among other titles. Sharing insights and personal anecdotes are Budd Shulberg, Joseph Heller, Betty Comden, Norman Mailer, William Styron and Peter Matthiessen.
"Good Morning" is one combat soldier's experience as an infantryman on the front lines of World War II Europe, as a prisoner of war in a German work camp and as a displaced, disillusioned veteran shortly after the war's end.
The authorized, first-hand account by the commander of the company that raised two American flags atop Mount Suribachi during the World War II battle of Iwo Jima in February 1945 — a bloody battle that was immortalized in the world famous, Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by Joe Rosenthal that helped inspire a war-weary nation to victory.