# Catch 22

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- Book: [Catch-22](https://www.bookquiver.com/joseph-heller/catch-22) ([Catch-22.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/joseph-heller/catch-22.md))
- Authors: [Joseph Heller](https://www.bookquiver.com/joseph-heller), [Trevor White](https://www.bookquiver.com/trevor-white)
- Publisher: little_brown_audio
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-0550-386-0
- Published: 2008-04-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

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.