num_pages: 151
description: 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. Winner of the National Book Award.
language: English
title: Johnny Got His Gun
titlecomplete: Johnny Got His Gun
characters: Joe Bonham
genres: Politics, Historical Fiction, Historical, World War I, Novels, Literature, Horror, Classics, War, Fiction
ratings_count: 42371
awards: awardedAt: -978278400000
name: National Book Award
category: Most Original Book
publisher: Bantam