![]() ![]() I decided to post a review for this after seeing I'd given it an arbitrary 3-stars, when in fact I recall being profoundly moved by this book. People think it quite remarkable that I was in combat in an airplane and I flew sixty missions even though I tell them that the missions were largely milk runs."Īgain, the rating system fails us. You got the feeling that there was something glorious about it." On his return home he "felt like a hero. Heller later remembered the war as "fun in the beginning. Two years later he was sent to Italy, where he flew 60 combat missions as a B-25 bombardier. After graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1941, Heller spent the next year working as a blacksmith's apprentice, a messenger boy, and a filing clerk. He sent it to New York Daily News, which rejected it. Even as a child, he loved to write at the age of eleven, he wrote a story about the Russian invasion of Finland. ![]() Joseph Heller was the son of poor Jewish parents from Russia. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. ![]()
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