Fred Zinnemann's film adapts James Jones's novel about soldiers at a Hawaii army base in the months before Pearl Harbor, softening the book's portrait of army brutality to win the army's cooperation.
Book· 1951· Historical
From Here to Eternity
by James Jones
From Here to Eternity: 2 recorded works trace back to it, and it draws on 1 recorded source.
What From Here to Eternity influenced
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James Jones carried his characters from From Here to Eternity into The Thin Red Line under new names (Warden became Welsh, Stark became Storm, Prewitt became Witt), saying the first book had demanded that Prewitt die.
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History
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Real-world influenceHIGH
- World War II
- Attack on Pearl Harbor
James Jones drew on his own service at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, and the novel ends with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that he witnessed there.