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Johnny Got His Gun
Dalton Trumbo
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Description for Johnny Got His Gun
Paperback. 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. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FJMF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 216.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141189819
SKU
9780141189819
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Ref
99-1
About Dalton Trumbo
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.
Reviews for Johnny Got His Gun
'Powerful ... an eye-opener' - Michael Moore 'A book that can never be forgotten by anyone who reads it' Saturday Review