num_pages: 254
description: 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 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. With a poignant new forward by Cindy Sheehan, Johnny Got His Gun—an undisputed classic of antiwar literature—is as timely as ever.
language: English
title: Johnny Got His Gun
titlecomplete: Johnny Got His Gun
characters: Joe Bonham
genres: Fiction, Classics, Politics, World War I, Historical, War, Historical Fiction, Horror, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 42382
awards: awardedAt: -978278400000
name: National Book Award
category: Most Original Book
publisher: Kensington