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Old 10-03-2023, 05:35 AM   #2005
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Originally Posted by Apache View Post
Looking at a book to buy set in late '30s and early WWII until the blurb mentioned that the protagonist's favorite book was The Thin Red Line. It wasn't published until 1962 and was based on James Jones's experiences on Guadalcanal.
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Maybe it was Arthur Griffiths' book of the same title? Published around 1900, it's set during the Crimean war where the battle of Balaclava was the original "thin red line".
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