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Johnny Got His Gun

by Dalton Trumbo

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  • World War I

Dalton Trumbo drew on news reports of soldiers maimed beyond recognition in the First World War, and his hero is a young American soldier maimed on the Western Front.

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Johnny Got His Gun

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 is a war novel written in 1938 by American novelist Dalton Trumbo and published in September 1939 by J. B. Lippincott. The novel won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1939. A 1971 film adaptation was written and directed by Trumbo.

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