His books include The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie’s Choice, and Darkness Visible. William Styron (1925–2006), a native of the Virginia Tidewater, was a graduate of Duke University and a veteran of the US Marine Corps. Jones’s other novels are Some Came Running, The Pistol, The Thin Red Line, A Touch of Danger, and Whistle. After shelving his unpublished first novel, They Shall Inherit the Laughter, Jones completed the critically acclaimed international bestseller From Here to Eternity. 27th Infantry Regiment, Jones was wounded at Guadalcanal and returned to Robinson, where he started to write about his experiences. Army and had the distinction of being the only individual who would become a major writer to witness the attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor. Born in Robinson, Illinois, Jones entered the U.S. James Jones (1921–1977), one of the major novelists of his generation, is known primarily as the author of fiction that probes the effects of World War II on the individual soldier. the most realistic and forceful novel I’ve read about life in the army.” - The New Yorker 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. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. THE WORLD WAR II MASTERPIECE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE READ ĭiamond Head, Hawaii, 1941.

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

From here to eternity jones