Catch-22

It is about a World War II Bombardier named Yossarin, who is desperate to get out of having to fight. He tries everything humanly possible in order to get relieved of duty. The book opens on him in a hospital, pretending to be sick because if he is sick, they can't force him to fly any missions. No one in his hospital is actually sick, because all those that were sick are now dead, except for one old man. The hospital has a mass breakout, in which him and all his not actually sick friends tell the doctors about them not really being sick, forcing them back to duty. The colonel who is keeping them in duty, Colonel Cathehart, keeps raising the amount of missions necessary to be relieved of duty. One of the main conflicts of the book is that if you are willing to fly missions, you are insane, and therefore unfit for duty. However, if one is shown to be insane, and therefore unfit for duty, submitting a request to be relieved of duty because of insanity proves that one is sane, since one is unwilling to continue serving, so insanity can't be a reason for being relieved. It is an interesting book, and if you haven't read it and aren't planning to, you should definitely read it.