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Johnny Got His Gun

Dalton Trumbo

243 pages

About this book

Trapped in a nightmarish existence after a catastrophic injury on the World War I front, a young soldier fights to maintain his sanity while stripped of his senses and connection to the world. Dalton Trumbo's unflinching masterpiece delivers a visceral, haunting indictment of the futility of war through the raw, fragmented consciousness of a man who has lost everything but his mind.

Themes
Dark & BroodingHeartbreakingQuietly DevastatingThought-ProvokingWhat Does It All Mean?War's absolute futilityIsolation within the mindLoss of human connection
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