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Author: James Jones
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453215115
Size: 16.66 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2011-05-10
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF From Here To Eternity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. 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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Book Detail:
Author: James Jones
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN: 0812984315
Size: 23.83 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2012-10-16
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF From Here To Eternity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time THE COMPLETE UNCENSORED EDITION • THE WORLD WAR II MASTERPIECE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE READ • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 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 his 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. 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. Now the original language has at last been restored to the most important American novel to come out of World War II. From Here to Eternity re-creates the authentic soldier experience and captures, like nothing else, the honor and savagery of man. Foreword by William Styron “A work of genius.”—Saturday Review “Extraordinary and utterly irresistible . . . a compelling and compassionate story.”—Los Angeles Times “A blockbuster of a book . . . raw and brutal and angry.”—The New York Times “Ferocious . . . the most realistic and forceful novel I’ve read about life in the army.”—The New Yorker

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Book Detail:
Author: James Jones
Publisher: Delta
ISBN: 0385333641
Size: 80.78 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 1998-10-13
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF From Here To Eternity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. 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 ther the honor and savagery of men.

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Book Detail:
Author: Caitlin Doughty
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393249905
Size: 71.56 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2017-10-03
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF From Here To Eternity Traveling The World To Find The Good Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world’s funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industry—especially chemical embalming—and suggests that the most effective traditions are those that allow mourners to personally attend to the body of the deceased. Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a fascinating tour through the unique ways people everywhere confront mortality.

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Book Detail:
Author: James Jones
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780141393223
Size: 68.79 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2013
Category: Soldiers
Language: en
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Download PDF From Here To Eternity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. 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.

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Book Detail:
Author: J.E. Smyth
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 183871586X
Size: 69.82 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2019-07-25
Category: Performing Arts
Language: en
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Download PDF From Here To Eternity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. From Here to Eternity (1953) is one of the most controversial films of its time. Adapted from James Jones's bestselling novel, the landmark blockbuster deals frankly with adultery, military corruption, physical abuse, racism and murder, and traces the unhappy lives of five American outsiders in the last days before Pearl Harbor. Made at the height of the Cold War and Hollywood's anticommunist purges, director Fred Zinnemann, writer Daniel Taradash and producer Buddy Adler defied military and industry pressure to censor the material. Exploring the film's full production history and drawing upon archival documents and rare interviews with cast and crew, J. E. Smyth provides a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the film many industry insiders thought couldn't be made. This special edition features original cover artwork by Eda Akaltun.

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Book Detail:
Author: James Jones
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453276467
Size: 43.94 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2012-09-11
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The World War Ii Trilogy eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Three classic World War II novels in one collection, including the National Book Award winner From Here to Eternity. An army base at Pearl Harbor. The jungles of Guadalcanal. A veterans hospital on the home front. Inspired by his own experiences in the US Army, author James Jones’s World War II Trilogy stands as one of the most significant achievements in war literature. This compilation includes: From Here to Eternity Pearl Harbor, 1941. A challenging young private is transferred to a unit where the commander is determined to make his life hell. This edition includes scenes and dialogue censored for the novel’s original publication. A true classic, From Here to Eternity was made into an Academy Award–winning film and a television mini-series, as well as adapted for the stage. The Thin Red Line The invasion of Guadalcanal ignites a six-month battle for two thousand square miles of jungle and sand. But the soldiers of Charlie Company are not of the heroic mold. The unit’s captain is too intelligent and sensitive for the job, his first sergeant is half mad, and the enlisted men begin the campaign gripped by cowardice. This searing portrait of jungle combat has been adapted twice for feature films. Whistle After a long journey across the Pacific, a ship finally lands on American soil. For the soldiers’ loved ones, it’s a celebration. But on board, hundreds of men are broken and haunted, survivors of the battle to wrest the South Seas from the Japanese Empire. Though on their way to heal in a Tennessee hospital, their road to recovery will take far more than mending physical wounds. This ebook features an illustrated biography of James Jones including rare photos from the author’s estate.

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Book Detail:
Author: Prue Shaw
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0871407809
Size: 74.91 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2014-02-10
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF Reading Dante From Here To Eternity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The best and most eloquent introduction to Dante for our time. Prue Shaw is one of the world's foremost authorities on Dante. Written with the general reader in mind, Reading Dante brings her knowledge to bear in an accessible yet expert introduction to his great poem. This is far more than an exegesis of Dante’s three-part Commedia. Shaw communicates the imaginative power, the linguistic skill and the emotional intensity of Dante’s poetry—the qualities that make the Commedia perhaps the greatest literary work of all time and not simply a medieval treatise on morality and religion. The book provides a graphic account of the complicated geography of Dante's version of the afterlife and a sure guide to thirteenth-century Florence and the people and places that influenced him. At the same time it offers a literary experience that lifts the reader into the universal realms of poetry and mythology, creating links not only to the classical world of Virgil and Ovid but also to modern art and poetry, the world of T. S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney and many others. Dante's questions are our questions: What is it to be a human being? How should we judge human behavior? What matters in life and in death? Reading Dante helps the reader to understand Dante’s answers to these timeless questions and to see how surprisingly close they sometimes are to modern answers. Reading Dante is an astonishingly lyrical work that will appeal to both those who’ve never read the Commedia and those who have. It underscores Dante's belief that poetry can change human lives.

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Book Detail:
Author: Autograph
Publisher: Autograph Abp
ISBN: 9781899282999
Size: 78.87 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2020-11
Category: Gay men
Language: en
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Download PDF Sunil Gupta eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Mark Sealy

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Book Detail:
Author: Timothy Egan
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735225257
Size: 52.36 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2020-06-16
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF A Pilgrimage To Eternity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Tracing an ancient pilgrimage route from Canterbury to Rome, the bestselling and "virtuosic" (The Wall Street Journal) writer explores the past and future of Christianity Moved by his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Timothy Egan decided to follow in the footsteps of centuries of seekers to force a reckoning with his own beliefs. He embarked on a thousand-mile pilgrimage through the theological cradle of Christianity, exploring one of the biggest stories of our time: the collapse of religion in the world that it created. Egan sets out along the Via Francigena, once the major medieval trail leading the devout to Rome, and makes his way overland via the alpine peaks and small mountain towns of France, Switzerland and Italy. Making his way through a landscape laced with some of the most important shrines to the faith, Egan finds a modern Canterbury Tale in the chapel where Queen Bertha introduced Christianity to pagan Britain; parses the supernatural in a French town built on miracles; and journeys to the oldest abbey in the Western world, founded in 515 and home to continuous prayer over the 1,500 years that have followed. A thrilling journey, a family story, and a revealing history, A Pilgrimage to Eternity looks for our future in its search for God.

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Book Detail:
Author: Sean Carroll
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0452296544
Size: 77.49 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2010-10-26
Category: Science
Language: en
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Download PDF From Eternity To Here eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "An accessible and engaging exploration of the mysteries of time." -Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe Twenty years ago, Stephen Hawking tried to explain time by understanding the Big Bang. Now, Sean Carroll says we need to be more ambitious. One of the leading theoretical physicists of his generation, Carroll delivers a dazzling and paradigm-shifting theory of time's arrow that embraces subjects from entropy to quantum mechanics to time travel to information theory and the meaning of life. From Eternity to Here is no less than the next step toward understanding how we came to exist, and a fantastically approachable read that will appeal to a broad audience of armchair physicists, and anyone who ponders the nature of our world.

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Book Detail:
Author: James Jones
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453215670
Size: 23.90 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2011-12-20
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Thin Red Line eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. With “shattering prose,” the New York Times–bestselling author of From Here to Eternity captures the intense combat in the battle of Guadalcanal (San Francisco Chronicle). In August of 1942 the first American marines charged Guadalcanal, igniting a six-month battle for two thousand square miles of jungle and sand. In that gruesome stretch sixty thousand Americans made the jump from boat to beach, and one in nine did not return. James Jones fought in that battle, and The Thin Red Line is his haunting portrait of men and war. The soldiers of C-for-Charlie Company are not cast from the heroic mold. The unit’s captain is too intelligent and sensitive for the job, his first sergeant is half mad, and the enlisted men begin the campaign gripped by cowardice. Jones’s moving portrayal of the Pacific combat experience stands among the great literature of World War II. This ebook features an illustrated biography of James Jones including rare photos from the author’s estate.

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Book Detail:
Author: James Jones
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453215492
Size: 48.30 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2011-05-10
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Pistol eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. As Japanese planes attack Pearl Harbor, an army private commits a simple crime that will change his life forever Richard Mast is a misfit in the infantry unit at Pearl Harbor. A bright mind in a sea of grunts, his only joy on the morning of December 7, 1941, is that today he has guard duty, which means he gets to carry a pistol. Usually reserved only for officers, the close-quarters weapon is coveted by every man in the infantry for its beauty and the sense of strength it gives the wearer. Mast intends to return the gun at the end of his shift—until the Japanese Navy intervenes. Turmoil erupts when the first bombs fall, and as the Army scrambles to organize its response to the swarm of enemy aircraft, Mast decides to hang on to the weapon, becoming a criminal on the day his country most needs heroes. This ebook features an illustrated biography of James Jones including rare photos from the author’s estate.

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Book Detail:
Author: P.C. Stevens
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1645364526
Size: 18.33 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2020-03-31
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF From Here To Eternity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The end of humanity has arrived. As if that's not terrifying enough, 28-year-old Caradia Blaine learns it could be worse when she's abducted by supernatural creatures and forced through a misty doorway. Upon landing in a different realm, Dia discovers she's the key to bringing a warlock king's deceased spouse back from the dead, the price being her life. This is hardly a problem. Her loved ones are gone and she wants to die. Just when Dia begins to accept her role in an otherworldly society, an unexpected caregiver comes along. Prince Lachlan must ensure Dia lives long enough for his father to conclude his use of her. Fate, however, has its own agenda. The prince soon realizes she could be of tremendous use to him, but falling in love was never part of the plan... Enter a world where falling in love makes the impossible possible. Not only does the bond between lovers have teeth, it's not afraid to bite.

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Book Detail:
Author: James Jones
Publisher: Halifax : Ferguson Library for Print Handicapped Students
ISBN:
Size: 35.49 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 1986
Category:
Language: en
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Download PDF From Here To Eternity Sound Recording eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Caitlin Doughty
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0393249891
Size: 39.32 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2017-10-03
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF From Here To Eternity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity." Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive global journey that introduces compelling, powerful rituals almost entirely unknown in America. In rural Indonesia, she watches a man clean and dress his grandfather’s mummified body, which has resided in the family home for two years. In La Paz, she meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls), and in Tokyo she encounters the Japanese kotsuage ceremony, in which relatives use chopsticks to pluck their loved-ones’ bones from cremation ashes. With boundless curiosity and gallows humor, Doughty vividly describes decomposed bodies and investigates the world’s funerary history. She introduces deathcare innovators researching body composting and green burial, and examines how varied traditions, from Mexico’s Días de los Muertos to Zoroastrian sky burial help us see our own death customs in a new light. Doughty contends that the American funeral industry sells a particular—and, upon close inspection, peculiar—set of "respectful" rites: bodies are whisked to a mortuary, pumped full of chemicals, and entombed in concrete. She argues that our expensive, impersonal system fosters a corrosive fear of death that hinders our ability to cope and mourn. By comparing customs, she demonstrates that mourners everywhere respond best when they help care for the deceased, and have space to participate in the process. Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a story about the many fascinating ways people everywhere have confronted the very human challenge of mortality.

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Book Detail:
Author: James Jones
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 9781453218495
Size: 68.29 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2011
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Whistle eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The third novel in Jones's classic World War II trilogy: a moving story of four World War II infantrymen coping with the difficulties of recovering at an army hospital and learning to readjust to the home front At the end of a long journey across the Pacific, a ship catches sight of California. On board are hundreds of injured soldiers, survivors of the American infantry's battle to wrest the South Seas from the Japanese Empire. As the men on deck cheer their imminent return to their families, wives, and favorite girls, four stay below, unable to join in the celebration. These men are broken by war and haunted by what they learned there of the savagery of mankind. As they convalesce in a hospital in Memphis, the pain of that knowledge will torment them far worse than any wound. The third of James Jones's epics based on his life in the army, this posthumously published novel draws on his own experiences to depict the horrors of war and their persistence even after the jungle is left behind. "Jones was a powerful naturalistic chronicler of certain essential realities of warfare and of the responses of men at war." -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 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 1944, 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.

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Book Detail:
Author: Darcy Marks
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534483381
Size: 50.12 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2022-07-26
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Grounded For All Eternity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A group of kids from hell come to Earth on one of the craziest nights of the year—Halloween—in this “entertaining, high-octane” (Kirkus Reviews) middle grade adventure about teamwork, friendship, shattering expectations, and understanding the world (or otherworld) around us. Malachi and his friends are just your regular average kids from hell. The suburbs that is, not the fiery pit part. But when Hell’s Bells ring out—signaling that a soul has escaped from one of the eternal circles, Mal and his friends can’t help but take the opportunity for a little adventure. Before they know it, they’ve somehow slipped through the veil and found themselves in the middle of Salem, Massachusetts, on Halloween night. And what’s even worse, they’ve managed to bring the escaped soul with them! As the essence of one of history’s greatest manipulators gains power by shifting the balance on Earth, Mal and his squad-mates—along with some new friends that they meet along the way—work desperately to trap the escapee, save the people of Earth from the forces of evil, and find the portal back to their own dimension. If they can’t manage it before their parents realize they’re gone, they’ll be grounded for an eternity. And an eternity in hell is a very, very long time.

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Book Detail:
Author: Ronald Chester
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781600420313
Size: 80.68 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2007
Category: Inheritance and succession
Language: en
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Download PDF From Here To Eternity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "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 ther the honor and savagery of men."--Publisher's website.

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Book Detail:
Author: Frank MacShane
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780395353554
Size: 13.13 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 1985
Category: Novelists, American
Language: en
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Download PDF Into Eternity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. MacShane examines the works of James Jones who entered the literary scene in 1951 with the publication of From Here to Eternity. Jones was forced by the Depression to join the army for five years, but escaped the misery of army life by reading and writing. The publication of his novel about the American army brought him not only the National Book Award but also friendships with writers such as Norman Mailer and William Styron, and Hollywood stars Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra. MacShane deftly interweaves biographical fact, personal anecdote, and literary criticism to produce an appreciation of a writer who lived fully in order to have experiences to put into his books. The author also covers Jones' marriage to actress Gloria Mosolino, their life in Paris where they entertained literary figures such as Irwin Shaw and Mary McCarthy; and the writing of his The Thin Red Line and Whistle. ISBN 0-395-35355-6 : $18.95.

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