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- 2008
- year of publication
- —
- Length
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Audiobook
- Format
- Publisher
- little_brown_audio
- ISBN-13
- 978-14-0550-386-0
- EAN
- 9781405503860
- Publication date
- 2008-04-03
- Book
- Catch-22 · 5 editions
The publisher on this edition
At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is a tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive. Yossarian is a bombardier in the 256th Squadron of the Army Air Forces during World War II, stationed on Pianosa, a fictionalised island in the Mediterranean between mainland Italy and Corsica. The squadron's assignment is to bomb enemy positions in Italy and eastern France. Yossarian's mission is simply to stay alive.
