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Johnny Got His Gun is an anti-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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- Anti-war novel
- Dalton Trumbo
- September 3, 1939, J. B. Lippincott
Mar 1, 1984 · 'Johnny Got His Gun' is an anti-war story told through the mind of US soldier, Joe Bonham, suffering from catastrophic injuries caused by an artillery bombardment during WWI.
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Published in 1939, Johnny Got His Gun is about a WWI soldier who wakes in a hospital and is forced to come to terms with his horrific injuries. The book is heavy, claustrophobic, disturbing, joyous at times, manic at others, and all-around soul crushing.
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Johnny Got His Gun is an anti-war novel set during World War I. Perhaps the best-known books in that genre are Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front and Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, both of which came out a few years before Johnny Got His Gun was first published.
Jul 1, 2007 · Dalton Trumbo. Johnny Got His Gun Paperback – July 1, 2007.
“An 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
Jul 1, 2007 · An immediate bestseller upon its original publication in 1939, Dalton Trumbo’s stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of World War I brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era.
