Johnny got his gun [electronic resource] / by Dalton Trumbo ; with a new foreword by Cindy Sheehan.
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 bestseller. 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.
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- Publisher: [Old Saybrook, Conn.] : Tantor Media, 2008.
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General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 7:42:39. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by William Dufris. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 110830 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | World War, 1914-1918 > Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 > Veterans > Fiction. Disabled veterans > Fiction. Disfigured persons > Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 > Psychological aspects > Fiction. |
Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. War stories. Didactic fiction. Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |