the most realistic and forceful novel I've read about life in the army. raw and brutal and angry." - The New York Times a compelling and compassionate story." - Los Angeles Times From Here to Eternity re-creates the authentic soldier experience and captures, like nothing else, the honor and savagery of man. Now the original language has at last been restored to the most important American novel to come out of World War II. This new edition features an Afterword by George Hendrick, a James Jones scholar, who discusses the novel's origin and eventual censorship at the hands of its first publisher. Both Warden and Prewitt are bound by a common bond: The Army is their heart and blood-and, possibly, their death. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he's risking his career to have an affair with his commanding officer's wife. But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets "the treatment" that may break him or kill him. Published here in its uncensored, original version, From Here to Eternity is a raw, electrifying account of the soldiers life in the months leading up to Pearl Harbor-of men who are trained. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. THE COMPLETE UNCENSORED EDITION - THE WORLD WAR II MASTERPIECE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE READ - WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDÄiamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
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