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From Here to Eternity by James Jones
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From Here to Eternity (original 1951; edition 1951)

by James Jones

Series: World War II Trilogy {Jones} (1)

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A novel of army life in the calm before Pearl Harbor: A New York Times bestseller, a National Book Award winner, and "one of the great books of our time" (Newsday).

At the Pearl Harbor army base in 1941, Robert E. Lee Prewitt is Uncle Sam's finest bugler. A career soldier with no patience for army politics, Prewitt becomes incensed when a commander's favorite wins the title of First Bugler. His indignation results in a transfer to an infantry unit whose commander is less interested in preparing for war than he is in boxing. But when Prewitt refuses to join the company team, the commander and his sergeant decide to make the bugler's life hell.

An American classic now available with scenes and dialogue considered unfit for publication in the 1950s, From Here to Eternity is a stirring picture of army life in the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of James Jones including rare photos from the author's estate.

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Title:From Here to Eternity
Authors:James Jones
Info:New York, Scribner, 1951.
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A war novel that I remember liking, though I can't recall anything about it now. ( )
  mykl-s | Aug 13, 2023 |
Brutal, sad, and human. ( )
  zeh | Jun 3, 2023 |
Different jacket, no ISBN, Charles scribner’s sons, New York
  SusanGreen9999 | Aug 28, 2022 |
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  archivomorero | Jun 27, 2022 |
Not sure why I finally got around to reading this book. Perhaps the war in Ukraine. More likely chance. A vivid depiction of Amy life and life in Honolulu just before and after Pearl Harbor. Characters come to life on the telling of the story. The narrator does a good job of bringing personality into the characters voices. Some unexpected twists. ( )
  waldhaus1 | Jun 21, 2022 |
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Reminded me a bit of Celine, unmitigated pressure, a cross between hell and purgatory set against the backdrop of paradise in the Hawaiian Islands.
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James Jones—primary authorall editionscalculated
Kliphuis, J.F.Translatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Schrag, OttoTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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From Here to Eternity
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1951
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Robert E. Lee Prewitt
Captain Dana Holmes
1st Sergeant Milton Warden
Private Angelo Maggio
Karen Holmes
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From Here to Eternity (1953 | IMDb)
From Here to Eternity (1979 | IMDb)
From Here to Eternity (1980 | IMDb)
Epigraph
The sphinx must solve her own riddle. If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience. Emmerson.
I have eaten your bread and salt.
I have drunk your water and wine.
The deaths ye died I watched beside,
And the lives ye led were mine.
--Rudyard Kipling
Gentlemen-rankers out on a spree,
Damned from here to Eternity,
God ha'mercy on such as we,
Ba! Yah! Bah!
--Rudyard Kipling
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To the United States Army
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When he finished packing, he walked out on to the third-floor porch of the barracks brushing the dust from his hands, a very neat and deceptively slim young man in the summer khakis that were still early morning fresh.
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Fiction. Literature. HTML:

A novel of army life in the calm before Pearl Harbor: A New York Times bestseller, a National Book Award winner, and "one of the great books of our time" (Newsday).

At the Pearl Harbor army base in 1941, Robert E. Lee Prewitt is Uncle Sam's finest bugler. A career soldier with no patience for army politics, Prewitt becomes incensed when a commander's favorite wins the title of First Bugler. His indignation results in a transfer to an infantry unit whose commander is less interested in preparing for war than he is in boxing. But when Prewitt refuses to join the company team, the commander and his sergeant decide to make the bugler's life hell.

An American classic now available with scenes and dialogue considered unfit for publication in the 1950s, From Here to Eternity is a stirring picture of army life in the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of James Jones including rare photos from the author's estate.

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813.54Literature › English (North America) › American fiction › 20th Century › 1945-1999

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PS3560.O49Language and Literature › American literature › American literature › Individual authors › 1961-

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