From Here to Eternity by James Jones

[Robert]

• From Here to Eternity by James Jones, winner of the National Book Award for fiction in 1952.

• 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 Karen. At the heart of the story lies a struggle between former bugler Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt, an infantryman from Kentucky and self-described "thirty-year man," (a career soldier) and his superiors.

• Adapted by Michael Hastings
• Music by Graham Taylor and Karl Johnson
• Directed by Nicholas Newton
• Broadcast June 16 & 23, 2002

• Cast
• Elizabeth McGovern
• Rachel Pickup
• Kenneth Cranham
• James Callas
• William Gaunt
• Kevin MacNalley
• Michael Fiest
• Trevor Ray
• Karl Johnson
• John Thames
• Sam Douglas
• Aaron Schwartz

• BBC R4 - From Here To Eternity 1 of 2
• BBC R4 - From Here To Eternity 2 of 2

[codepop]

Love the WWII related stories...thank you

[Robert]

I like that type story also.

[Couch Potato]

Thank you!

[abby]

Thanks...