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Johnny Got His Gun

By: Dalton Trumbo
Narrated by: William Dufris
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Summary
 This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered - not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives. This is no ordinary novel. This is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal, remorseless, and gruesome...but so is war.

Johnny Got His Gun holds a place as one of the classic antiwar novels. First published in 1939, Dalton Trumbo's story of a young American soldier terribly maimed in World War I - he "survives" armless, legless, and faceless, but with his mind intact - was an immediate best seller. This fiercely moving novel was a rallying point for many Americans who came of age during World War II, and it became perhaps the most popular novel of protest during the Vietnam era.

©1991 Dalton Trumbo (P)2008 Tantor Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction War & Military War

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"[This] is a terrifying book, of an extraordinary emotional intensity." ( The Washington Post)
"There can be no question of the effectiveness of this book." ( The New York Times)
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The book is great read regardless of stance but I recommend skipping the foreword as it is highly political, lengthy and is not apart of the core story.

Great book but skip the foreword

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raw and emotional, johnny got his gun is a work of art. if you have any interest in war novels, this book is for you.

this may be one of the best books I've read

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