Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo

nMr. Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury accounting to eloquence.--The New York Times nThis 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.

n nPraise for Johnny Got His Gun n n It is] very hard to write about Johnny Got His Gun without being guilty of understatement or hysterics. It is a terrifying book, of an extraordinary emotional intensity.--Washington Post n nAn extraordinarily agitating book, passionate in its language, potent in its emotional effect, a novel that tells in unsparingly honest words what a wickedly gruesome business war is, and how wickedly wasteful. Johnny Got His Gun, full of horror and hurt, will be a terrific and vivid experience for anyone who reads it.--Boston Herald n nIt is hard to imagine a more persuasive argument for staying out of war than this smooth, savage, brilliant tale.--Chicago Daily Newsn