The Thin Red Line

The Thin Red Linethere were many dead on the ridge but the big brass kept ordering: "attack!" Part IIIn the preceding installment, the author once more revealed his mastery in depicting a single engagement against the broad panorama of war, as he told how C Company, under the command of Captain Stein, suffered heavy casualties while attacking Hill 210 during the bloody Guadalcanal campaign. Stein's superior, Colonel Tall (via field telephone from behind the lines) had just ordered a fr...