![]() ![]() However, some company members who served with Jones said that "The book 'From Here to Eternity' is 80 percent true." Or 90 percent true. 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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