Johnny Got His Gun: Dalton Trumbo (Penguin Modern Classics)

Johnny Got His Gun: Dalton Trumbo (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Dalton Trumbo (Author), Dalton Trumbo (Author), E. L. Doctorow (Introduction)

Synopsis

It was the war to end all wars, the global struggle that would finally make the world safe for democracy - at any cost. But one American soldier has paid a price beyond measure. And within the disfigured flesh that was once a vision of youth lives a spirit that cannot accept what the world has become. An immediate bestseller upon its first publication in 1939, Trumbo's stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of the First World War brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era, as timely as ever.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: 1
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 30 Jul 2009

ISBN 10: 0141189819
ISBN 13: 9780141189819

Media Reviews
'Powerful ... an eye-opener' - Michael Moore 'A book that can never be forgotten by anyone who reads it' Saturday Review
Author Bio
E. L. Doctorow (1931-2015) was one of America's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. Winner of the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle Awards, two PEN/Faulkner Awards, and the National Humanities Medal, he is the author of twelve novels that explored the drama of American life from the late-19th century to the 21st.