However, Prew swore off boxing after accidentally blinding his sparring partner and even transferred out of a past regiment to get away from boxing. Holmes thinks that winning a boxing championship will greatly help his chances for promotion and concentrates on building a strong team, offering incentives such as promotions to men who box well. G Company's commanding officer is Captain Dana 'Dynamite' Holmes, the regimental boxing coach, who chose Prew for his unit because of Prew's past history as a talented welterweight boxer. He was transferred from his last unit, a Bugle Corps, with a reduction to the lowest rank after complaining that a less skilled bugler, who was a friend and sex partner of the Chief Bugler, had been made First Bugler over him.

Prew is a career soldier (a ' thirty-year man') with six years' service, an excellent bugler, and a former boxer.

Lee Prewitt, nicknamed 'Prew', reports to his new posting at G Company, a US Army infantry unit stationed at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. The book was later made into an Academy Award-winning film starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra, and Ernest Borgnine as well as two television adaptations and a stage musical. įrom Here to Eternity won the National Book Award and was named one of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th century by the Modern Library Board. Maggio sued Jones and his publishers and Columbia Pictures, claiming his character had been defamed.

Another company member who served with Jones said that 'The book 'From Here to Eternity' is 80 percent true.' After viewing the 1953 film adaptation, company member Joseph A. Fellow company member Hal Gould said that while the novel was based on the company, including some depictions of actual persons, the characters are fictional, and the harsh conditions and described events are inventions. It is loosely based on Jones's experiences in the pre-World War II Hawaiian Division's 27th Infantry and the unit in which he served, Company E ('The Boxing Company'). Army infantry company stationed in Hawaii in the months leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Set in 1941, the novel focuses on several members of a U.S.

861 (first edition, hard), 865 (Restored edition)įrom Here to Eternity is the debut novel of American author James Jones, published by Scribner's in 1951.

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