Books like From Here to Eternity
In 1941 at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt, a bugler and boxer, refuses to box for his new company and is given the treatment, while his first sergeant begins an affair with the captain's wife.
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Tales of the South Pacific
Linked stories of American servicemen, nurses and islanders in the South Pacific during the Second World War, as the forces build up for the invasion of the Solomons.
One of Ours
Claude Wheeler, a restless Nebraska farm boy who feels he was meant for something larger, finds it when America enters the First World War.
And Where Were You, Adam?
Linked episodes of the German retreat from Romania and Hungary in 1944, following a soldier, Feinhals, among men who no longer believe in anything.
The Storm We Made
In 1945, near the end of the Japanese occupation of Malaya, Cecily Alcantara watches her three children suffer for a choice she made years before, when she began passing secrets to a Japanese general who promised an Asia for Asians.
The End of the Affair
A man in wartime London is tormented by a love affair that he believes ended through divine intervention, and his obsessive retelling reveals a faith he can't accept.
Paco's Story
Paco Sullivan, the only survivor of a massacre of his company in Vietnam, gets off a bus in a small Texas town, scarred and limping, and takes a job washing dishes.
Heat and Dust
A young Englishwoman travels to India to find out what happened to her grandfather's first wife, Olivia, who in 1923 left her husband for an Indian prince.
The Caine Mutiny
Willie Keith, a rich young Princeton graduate, joins the navy and is posted to the Caine, a battered old minesweeper, where a new captain named Queeg takes command.
The Forsyte Saga
Three novels following the Forsytes, a wealthy London family of the late Victorian age, beginning with Soames, a solicitor who treats his beautiful wife Irene as one more of his possessions.
The Family Moskat
The wealthy Moskat family of Warsaw and its old patriarch Meshulam, from the turn of the century to the German bombardment of 1939.
The Great World
Digger Keen, a boy from a river town in New South Wales, and Vic Curran, a restless outsider, meet as prisoners of the Japanese on the Burma railway, and their lives stay bound together afterwards.
The Wild Palms
Two stories in alternating chapters: Harry Wilbourne, a young doctor, runs away with a married sculptor, Charlotte, and a nameless convict is swept down the flooding Mississippi in 1927.