From Here to Eternity (edit title)

James M edited the contributors of From Here to Eternity Monday, August 17 2009.

• Added a contributor: James Jones: (Primary Author)
• Removed a contributor: James Jones: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the description of From Here to Eternity Saturday, August 1 2009.

• 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. From the Paperback edition.

Shelfari edited the contributors of From Here to Eternity Friday, July 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: James Jones: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of From Here to Eternity Thursday, July 16 2009.

• 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.