Preview of From Here to Eternity Summary:

Jones built one characteristically pungent theme into all of his writing: "Even the worst SOB in the world has suffered." Jones dedicated From Here to Eternity to the United States Army, and by that he meant the enlisted men of his time, caught up in the difficult transition from the professional Regular Army of thirty-year-men to the permanent civilian army of a major world power. Most of the pain Jones chronicles so remorselessly...