Which of the following novels was not published in the 1950s?

"The Thin Red Line", a novel written by the American author James Jones, wasn't published in the 1950s. It draws heavily on Jones's experiences at the Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse during the Guadalcanal campaign of World War II. The author served in the US Army's 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division during this war.

"The Thin Red Line" was originally published in September 1962. The novel shares and examines the different reactions the central characters have to combat. In the novel, Jones changed the names of three characters used in very his first novel ("From Here to Eternity", 1951) enabling them to appear in "The Thin Red Line". The character of Prewitt became Witt, Warden became Welsh and Stark became Storm. Jones's later novel "Whistle" (1978), features a similar set of characters, now named Sergeant Mart Winch, Bobby Prell, and Johnny "Mother" Strange; Corporal Fife in "The Thin Red Line" also reappears as company clerk Marion Landers in "Whistle".

The novel "The Thin Red Line" portrays battle realistically, including several particularly gruesome acts depicted as natural responses to the soldiers' environment, such as the disinterring of a Japanese corpse for fun, the summary execution of Japanese prisoners, and the extraction of their corpses' gold teeth. The novel explores the idea that modern war is an extremely personal and lonely experience in which each soldier suffers the emotional horrors of war by himself.