Article 22 of the military regulations

Author: Joseph Heller
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Publication Date: 1998-09-01
Features: In a U.S. Air Force base, absurdities happen one after another, and everyone there has gone mad. Catch-22 is a masterpiece depicting a world of madness and is the best novel reflecting World War II. At the end of World War II, on a U.S. Air Force base on Pianosa Island, eight miles south of Elba Island in the Mediterranean Sea, bombardier Captain Yossarian lives like a bird startled by a gun, in a chaotic, absurd, and terrifying world, disregarding all authority and principles to make nearly frantic efforts to save his own life. On this island, his only purpose in life is to avoid combat flights. As a result, he repeatedly feigns illness to stay in the hospital, because he realizes it is the best place to hide. In the end, he finally deserted and fled to Sweden.