- For other uses, see From Here to Eternity (disambiguation).
From Here to Eternity is a novel by James Jones. It is loosely based on Jones' experiences in the [19th Infantry Regiment], Company E ("The Boxing Company"). Fellow company member Hal Gould said that while the novel was based on the company, including some real people, the characters are changed, the harsh conditions and the events are fictional. Image File history File links JamesJones_FromHereToEternity. ...
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A war novel is a novel in which the primary action takes place in a field of armed combat, or in a domestic setting (or home front) where the characters are preoccupied with the preparations for, or recovery from, war. ...
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From Here to Eternity can refer to: From Here to Eternity (novel), a 1951 novel by James Jones From Here to Eternity, a 1953 movie based on the novel From Here to Eternity (miniseries), a 1979 miniseries based on the novel From Here to Eternity (TV series), a 1980 TV...
James Jones (November 6, 1921 – May 9, 1977) is an American author most famous for his explorations of World War II and its aftermath. ...
Hal Gould (born February 29, 1920 in Clark, Wyoming) American Photographer and Gallery Curator Bioragphical Information Hal grew up on a farm in New Mexico. ...
Plot introduction
Set in the summer and autumn of 1941 at the Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, the story follows several members of G-Company, including Captain Dana “Dynamite” Holmes and First Sergeant Milt Warden, who begins an affair with Holmes's wife. At the heart of the novel lays a struggle between Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt, an infantryman from Kentucky, and his superior officers. The stubborn Prewitt refuses to box in his company’s outfit and then resists the "Treatment," a daily ritual in which his drill sergeant runs him into the ground.
Like Jones's other World War II novels, the central characters are actually the same in all three books, though their names have been changed. From Here to Eternity features Warden and Prewitt, who become Welsh and Witt in The Thin Red Line and Mart Winch and Bobby Prell in Whistle. Similarly, Corporal Fife in The Thin Red Line reappears as Marion Landers in Whistle, as does the cook, Storm, who becomes Johnny "Mother" Strange. A good book that is describing the war in the pacific during world war II , against Japan. ...
Whistle (1978), a novel by James Jones, tells the story of four wounded South Pacific veterans brought back by hospital ship to the United States during World War II. Whistle forms the third part of a war trilogy, after From Here to Eternity (1951) and The Thin Red Line (1962). ...
A good book that is describing the war in the pacific during world war II , against Japan. ...
Whistle (1978), a novel by James Jones, tells the story of four wounded South Pacific veterans brought back by hospital ship to the United States during World War II. Whistle forms the third part of a war trilogy, after From Here to Eternity (1951) and The Thin Red Line (1962). ...
Allusions/references to other works The title was inspired by a line from Rudyard Kipling's poem "Gentleman Rankers:" Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was a British author and poet, born in India. ...
- Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree,
- Damned from here to Eternity,
- God ha' mercy on such as we,
- Baa! Yah! Bah!
Allusions/references from other works This poem also inspired the Whiffenpoof Song of Yale drinking fame, which mentions "gentlemen-songsters off on a spree, damned from here to eternity." The Whiffenpoofs are an all-male vocal ensemble at Yale University . ...
Yale can refer to an educational institution: Yale University, one of the United States oldest universities. ...
Film, TV or theatrical adaptations It was made into a film in 1953. Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in the famous beach scene in From Here to Eternity. ...
See also: 1952 in film 1953 1954 in film 1950s in film years in film film Events September 16 - The Robe debuts as the first anamorphic, widescreen CinemaScope film. ...
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