James Jones's The Thin Red Line (1962)
Sample quote: "A small group explored the little Japanese camp for booty and discovered there the first evidence any of them had seen of cannibalism. They had all heard rumors, but this was no rumor. A dead Japanese man, who apparently had died from artillery inflicted chest wounds, had been strung up from a branch by his heels and strips of flesh about two inches wide had been cut from his buttocks, lower back and thighs. ... The charred remains of the little campfire where they had cooked him was only a few feet away. ... They obviously had been given little or no rations to sustain them, and curiously enough nobody was very shocked or horrified by the cannibalism. In this mad jungle world ... it seemed far more normal than not normal."
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