From Here to Eternity

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Pub Date May 10 2011 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012

Description

James Jones's epic story of army life in the calm before Pearl Harbor-now with previously censored scenes and dialogue restored.

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.

James Jones (1921-1977) was one of the most accomplished American authors of the World War II generation. He served in the U.S. Army from 1939 to 1945, and was present at the attack on Pearl Harbor as well as the battle for Guadalcanal, where he was decorated with a purple heart and bronze star. Jones's experiences informed his epic novels From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line. His other works include Some Came Running, The Pistol, Go to the Widow-Maker, The Ice-Cream Headache and Other Stories, The Merry Month of May, A Touch of Danger, Whistle, and To the End of the War-a book of previously unpublished fiction.

James Jones's epic story of army life in the calm before Pearl Harbor-now with previously censored scenes and dialogue restored.

At the Pearl Harbor army base in 1941, Robert E. Lee Prewitt is Uncle...


Advance Praise

"One of the great books of our time." -Newsday

"A blockbuster of a book . . . raw and brutal and angry." -The New York Times

"One of the significant writers of his generation." -The New York Times Book Review

"Few men write as effectively about the American army as James Jones." -Newsweek

"The only one of my contemporaries who I felt had more talent than myself was James Jones. And he has also been the only writer of any time for whom I felt any love." -Norman Mailer

"One of the great books of our time." -Newsday

"A blockbuster of a book . . . raw and brutal and angry." -The New York Times

"One of the significant writers of his generation." -The New York Times...



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