From Here to Eternity (1951) - James Jones Audiobook

Written by James Jones
Read by Elijah Alexander
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

· Length: 36 hrs and 50 mins
· Release date: 07-13-10
· Publisher: Audible Studios

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 other the honor and savagery of men.

All of Jones’ three World War II novels are based on his war experiences.

The book in total is 37 hrs long and is divided into 5 books varying from 4 to 12 hrs in length. There are 57 chapters. I went with chapters.

I found copies of the other two books in the series, The Thin Red Line and Whistle. The Thin Red Line is very bad quality. I cannot find who produced it but might be NLS read by Alan Hewitt . Tinny sound and a poor reader but I’ll upload if requested…..Whistle (book 3) is CNIB and good sound.