Catch22 Author:Joseph Keller Set in the closing months of WWII, 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.) His problem is Col. Cathcart, who keeps ... more »raising the nnumber of missions the men have to fly. The others range from Lt. Milo Minderbinder, a dedicated entrepreneur (he bombs his own airfield when the Germans make him a reasonable offer: cost plus 6%), to the dead man in Yossarian's tent, from Maj., Maj., Maj., who tragedy is that he resembles Henry Fonda, to Nately's who're kid sister, from Dori Duz, who docs, to the wounded gunner Snowden, who lies dying in the tail of Yossarian's place and at last reveals his terrifying secret. Catch-22 is a microcosm of the 20th's world as it might look to someone dangerously sane. It is, we believe, one of the strongest creations of the mid-century.« less