To the End of the War - James Jones

Written by James Jones
Read by Al Dano
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

Never-before-published fiction by one of the finest war authors of the 20th century

In 1943, a young soldier named James Jones returned from the Pacific, lightly wounded and psychologically tormented by the horrors of Guadalcanal. When he was well enough to leave the hospital, he went AWOL rather than return to service, and began work on a novel of the World War II experience.

Jones’s AWOL period was brief, but he returned to the novel at war’s end, bringing him to the attention of Maxwell Perkins, the legendary editor of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. Jones would then go on to write From Here to Eternity, the National Book Award-winning novel that catapulted him into the ranks of the literary elite.

Now, for the first time, Jones’s earliest writings are presented here, as a collection of stories about man and war, a testament to the great artist he was about to become.

7 hrs and 13 mins
December 11, 2012

NOTE: What is presented is the remains of what would have been the first novel by Jones, titled They Shall Inherit the Laughter