Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury amounting to eloquence.-The New York Times A book that can never be forgotten by anyone who reads it.-Saturday Review From the Back Cover Johnny Got His Gun holds a place as one of the classic antiwar novels. A terrifying book, of an extraordinary emotional intensity.-The Washington Post Powerful. Doctorow, Johnny Got His Gun is an undisputed classic of antiwar literature thats as timely as ever. With a compelling new foreword by fellow award-winning writer E.
**Lightning Print On Demand Title Book Synopsis The Searing Portrayal Of War That Has Stunned And Galvanized Generations Of Readers An immediate bestseller upon its original publication in 1939, Dalton Trumbos stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of World War I brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era. This fiercely moving novel was a rallying point for many Americans who came of age during WWII, and it became perhaps the most popular novel of protest during the Vietnam era. First published in 1939, Dalton Trumbos story of a young American soldier terribly maimed in WWI-he survives armless, legless, and faceless, but with mind intact-was an immediate bestseller. About the Book Johnny Got His Gun holds a place as one of the classic antiwar novels.
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