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Catch-22 [talking book]

An anti-war epic about a small group of U.S. flyers in the Mediterranean during WWII.

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  • "Catch twenty-two"@en
  • "Catch twenty-two"
  • "Catch 22"
  • "Catch-twenty-two"@en
  • "Catch Twenty-Two"@en
  • "Catch-twenty two"@en
  • "Catch twenty two"
  • "Catch twenty two"@en

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  • "An anti-war epic about a small group of U.S. flyers in the Mediterranean during WWII."@en
  • "A funny, yet serious satire of World War II."@en
  • "A bomber crew in Italy during WWII is caught in the paradoxes of war."@en
  • "Op een Amerikaanse luchtmachtbasis op een Italiaans eiland tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog komt de absurditeit van de oorlog en het militarisme wel erg duidelijk naar voren."
  • "Yossarian wants to get out of flying war combat missions by being crazy, but is caught by Catch 22: the rule that said if he knew he was crazy, then he wasn't. A black satire of the American air war in Italy."
  • "Episodis de la novel·la."
  • "It is set in the closing months of World War II, in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy. Its hero is a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him. (He has decided to live forever even if he has to die in the attempt.)."@en
  • "At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is the tale of Captain Yossarian who spends his time plotting to survive."
  • "Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him."@en
  • "Read by Alan Arkin."@en
  • ""Catch-22" is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is totally original. It is set in the closing months of World War II, in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy. Its hero is a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him. (He has decided to live forever even if he has to die in the attempt.)."@en
  • "Set in the closing months of World War II, in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy. The hero is a bobardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and fuious because thousands of people he hasn'e even met keep trying to kill him. (He has decided to live forever even if he has to die in the attempt.)."@en
  • "Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy--it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he's assigned, he'll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes a formal request to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved."@en
  • ""If Yossarian were crazy, he wouldn't have to fly any more dangerous combat missions, but since he was sane enough to know he'd be crazy to keep on flying, then he wasn't crazy and would have to continue flying. That's Catch-22."@en
  • "A satire of the American air war in Italy during the Second World War."@en
  • "At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indicement 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."@en
  • "A black satire of the American air war in Italy."
  • "Moving between hilarity and horror, it is outrageously funny and strangely affecting, a microcosm of the twentieth-century world as it might look to someone dangerously sane. The story of a handful of the wildest flyboys of World War II, their tight little Mediterranean island, and their loose Italian women, Cathch-22 is a novel of war and peace, of beauty and the beast within all men. The Catch-22: soldiers who won't fly a plane into combat must be crazy, but if they ask not to fly on the grounds that they are crazy, they must be sane. Heller's novel celebrates the pluck of its protagonist, Yossarian, who refuses to comply with the war's insanity."@en
  • "Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy, a bombadier named Yossarian is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him. He has decided to live forever, even if he has to die in the attempt."@en
  • "At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indicement 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."
  • "The modern classic depicting the struggles of a U.S. airman attempting to survive the lunacy and depravity of a World War II airbase in Italy.--"@en

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  • "Black humor (Literature)"@en
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  • "Fiction"
  • "Satire"
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  • "War stories"@en
  • "War stories"
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Black humor"@en
  • "Black humor (Literature.)"@en
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  • "Downloadable audio books"
  • "Audiobooks, Fiction"@en

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  • "Catch-22 [talking book]"@en
  • "Catch-22 : a novel"@en
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