title: Just So Stories (Macmillan Classics)
author:  Rudyard Kipling 
description: <div>&ldquo;Beautifully planned, hauntingly written, these chapters hold a thrilling intensity&hellip; The most striking novel in its genre since&#160;<I>Tom&rsquo;s Midnight Garden</I>.&quot;&#160;<I> &mdash;Times Literary Supplement, </I>on&#160;<I>When Marnie was There</I></div>
zlib_text: # From Here to Eternity
  
  
  ### James Jones
  
  
  ### Edited and with an Afterword by George Hendrick
  
  
  ![image](images/00001.jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  TO THE
  
  
  UNITED STATES
  
  
  ARMY
  
  
  “I have eaten your bread and salt.
  
  
  I have drunk your water and wine.
  
  
  The deaths ye died I have watched beside,
  
  
  And the lives ye led were mine.”
  
  
  —RUDYARD KIPLING
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Contents
  
  
  [Book One: The
  Transfer](CR%21ZWDHZ172Z13HX5VPNBW1AMB7D5MP_split_004.html#filepos5361)
  
  
  [Chapter 1](CR%21ZWDHZ172Z13HX5VPNBW1AMB7D5MP_split_006.html#filepos5467)
  
  
  [Chapter 2](CR%21ZWDHZ172Z13HX5VPNBW1AMB7D5MP_split_007.html#filepos34068)
  
  
  [Chapter 3](CR%21ZWDHZ172Z13HX5VPNBW1AMB7D5MP_split_008.html#filepos60515)
  
  
  [Chapter 4](CR%21ZWDHZ172Z13HX5VPNBW1AMB7D5MP_split_009.html#filepos98107)
  
  
  [Chapter 5](CR%21ZWDHZ172Z13HX5VPNBW1AMB7D5MP_split_010.html#filepos147208)
  
  
  [Chapter 6](CR%21ZWDHZ172Z13HX5VPNBW1AMB7D5MP_split_011.html#filepos168015)
  
  
  [Chapter 7](CR%21ZWDHZ172Z13HX5VPNBW1AMB7D5MP_split_012.html#filepos188117)
  
  
  [Chapter 8](CR%