Johnny Got His Gun
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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.
Winner of the National Book Award
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.
Winner of the National Book Award
This is a book that I read many many years ago and wanted to find it again. It is one that everybody should read and then read it again after digesting it for a long time.
If you ever want to read a very powerful anti-war novel, this is it. You won't finish it an not be affected in some way.
It was written in 1939.
Let me tell you about the author: Dalton Trumbo was the most famous member of "The Hollywood Ten," filmwriters blacklisted during the McCarthy era. He was also a screenwriter -- including Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, The Brave One, Spartacus, Exodus, Papillion, Lonely Are the Brave....
Long a fighter against censorship and for trade union rights, Trumbo was a member of teh Communist Party from 1943 to 1948. In 1947 he refused to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee and was jailed. From 1947 to 1960 he was blacklisted in Hollywood and went in self-exile in Mexico where he wrote screenplays under numerous pseudonyms. In 1960, Otto Preminger publicly announced he had hired Mr. Trumbo to do the screenplay for Exodus, and the blacklisting was broken.
If you ever want to read a very powerful anti-war novel, this is it. You won't finish it an not be affected in some way.
It was written in 1939.
Let me tell you about the author: Dalton Trumbo was the most famous member of "The Hollywood Ten," filmwriters blacklisted during the McCarthy era. He was also a screenwriter -- including Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, The Brave One, Spartacus, Exodus, Papillion, Lonely Are the Brave....
Long a fighter against censorship and for trade union rights, Trumbo was a member of teh Communist Party from 1943 to 1948. In 1947 he refused to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee and was jailed. From 1947 to 1960 he was blacklisted in Hollywood and went in self-exile in Mexico where he wrote screenplays under numerous pseudonyms. In 1960, Otto Preminger publicly announced he had hired Mr. Trumbo to do the screenplay for Exodus, and the blacklisting was broken.
