Johnny Got His Gun

Der 17-jährige Soldat Johnny wird im Ersten Weltkrieg von einer Granate buchstäblich zerfetzt. Nach zahlreichen Operationen bleibt von ihm nur noch ein Torso. Doch Johnny hat einen Plan: Er will sich in Schulen und Städten ausstellen lassen, in allen Ländern, vor Schulklassen zeigen, um vor den Folgen des Patriotismus' und des Kriegs zu warnen... Eindringlicher Anti-Kriegsklassiker von Dalton Trumbo.

Informationen zum Autor Dalton Trumbo Klappentext New edition of this anti-war novel, with an introduction by E.L. Doctorow. Zusammenfassung It was the war to end all wars, the global struggle that would finally make the world safe for democracy - at any cost. But one American soldier has paid a price beyond measure. And within the disfigured flesh that was once a vision of youth lives a spirit that cannot accept what the world has become. An immediate bestseller upon its first publication in 1939, Trumbo's stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of the First World War brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era. As timely as ever.

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Dalton Trumbo

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New edition of this anti-war novel, with an introduction by E.L. Doctorow.

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It was the war to end all wars, the global struggle that would finally make the world safe for democracy - at any cost. But one American soldier has paid a price beyond measure. And within the disfigured flesh that was once a vision of youth lives a spirit that cannot accept what the world has become.

An immediate bestseller upon its first publication in 1939, Trumbo's stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of the First World War brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era. As timely as ever.