Word: prewitt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief characters, Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt and First Sergeant Milton Anthony Warden are both good soldiers, thirty-year men who love the Army. Prewitt suffers from a naive belief that he has retained some individual rights; throughout the book, the Army's dealings with him consist of a vicious, continued assault on his self-respect. After brutal treatment in a disciplinary Stockade, Pewitt kills a guard and goes AWOL; in the end, he is shot by MP's while trying to rejoin his unit after Pearl Harbor...
Both Warden and Prewitt have love affairs in the course of the book, Prewitt with a respectable where and Warden with the wife of his captain. With some cynicism but convincing logie, Jones has them both flee their women when the relationships get too much like marriage...