From Here to Eternity: Book Guide, Author and Facts
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Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets "the treatment" that may break him or kill him. First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he's risking his career to have an affair with the commanding officer's wife. Both Warden and Prewitt are bound by a common bond: the Army is their heart and blood ... and, possibly, their death. In this magnificent but brutal classic of a soldier's life, James Jones portrays the courage, violence and passions of men and women who live by unspoken codes and with unutterable despair ... in the most important American novel to come out of World War II, a masterpiece that captures as no other the honor and savagery of men.
Quick facts about From Here to Eternity
- Title: From Here to Eternity
- Author: James Jones
- First published: 1951
- Genre: national book award winner, award:national_book_award=1952, award:national_book_award=fiction
- OpenLibrary ID: OL3000715W
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What is From Here to Eternity about?
Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941.
Who wrote From Here to Eternity?
From Here to Eternity was written by James Jones.
When was From Here to Eternity published?
From Here to Eternity was first published in 1951.
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