Whistle (1978) by James Jones, published by the Franklin Library, is the final, posthumously completed novel in his WWII Trilogy (following From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line). Set in a U.S. Army hospital near the war’s end, it follows four wounded soldiers—Prewitt, Stark, Warden, and Landers—as they grapple with physical and psychological scars, addiction, and the alienation of returning to a changed America.
Jones’s raw, unflinching prose exposes the brutal cost of war beyond the battlefield. The Franklin Library edition—bound in full leather with gilt accents—honors this gritty, autobiographical masterpiece.
A haunting coda to one of literature’s great war sagas.
