PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS : FROM HERE TO ETERNITY PB B – JAMES JONES

I ll never understand the fucking Army. Prew won t conform. He could have been the best boxer and the best bugler in his division, but he chooses the life of a straight soldier in Hawaii under the fierce tutelage of Sergeant Milt Warden. When he refuses to box for his company for mysterious reasons, he is given The Treatment , a relentless campaign of physical and mental abuse. Meanwhile, Warden wages his own campaign against authority by seducing the Captain s wife Karen – just because he can. Both men are bound to the Army, even though it may destroy them. Published here in its uncensored, original version, From Here to Eternity is a raw, electrifying account of the soldier s life in the months leading up to Pearl Harbor-of men who are trained to fight the enemy, but cannot resist fighting each other.