Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941.&#160;&#160;Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler.&#160;&#160;But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets &quot;the treatment&quot; that may break him or kill him.&#160;&#160;First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he's risking his career to have an affair with the commanding officer's wife.&#160;&#160;Both Warden and Prewitt are bound by a common bond:&#160;&#160;the Army is their heart and blood . . .and, possibly, their death.<br><br>In this magnificent but brutal classic of a soldier's life, James Jones portrays the courage, violence and passions of men and women who live by unspoken codes and with unutterable despair. . .in the most important American novel to come out of World War II, a masterpiece that captures as no ther the honor and savagery of men.<br><br><br><i>From the Paperback edition.</i>