num_pages: 955
description: 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   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.
language: English
title: From Here to Eternity
titlecomplete: From Here to Eternity
characters: Milton Anthony Warden, Robert E. Lee Prewitt
genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, War, Historical, World War II, Novels, Literature, American, Classics, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 17403
places: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Hawaii
series: The World War II Trilogy 
awards: awardedAt: -568051200000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Laurel