The Thin Red Line In the novel The Thin Red Line, the author James Jones uses his own experiences of WWII to write a war novel that describes the truth of war and the thoughts of the men fighting it. This novel is a long detailed account of WWII where the American troops are trying to capture th...

A Farewell to Arms, by Earnest Hemingway, is a great novel about the pains of life including the great sorrow that comes with loosing those you love. Frederic Henry, the protagonist of the story, is an American Lieutenant in the Italian Army during the First World War. This fact is significant in le...

American involvement in World War II led to an isolationist temperament. Despite victories in east and west, American society was willing to lick its wounds and regroup to the temporary exclusion of any further foreign entanglement. The continued crisis with Russia further secured American foreign ...