Query: 1939 American military novels
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Adventures of a Young Man
Johnny Got His Gun
Evidence from documents: Adventures of a Young Man: '''Adventures of a Young Man''''' is a 1939 novel by John Dos Passos, which eventually became the first in this writer's District of Columbia Trilogy.


The novel, which tells of a disillusioned young American radical who fights on the side of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and is killed during the war, is contemporary with Ernest Hemingway's ''For Whom the Bell Tolls'', with its similar theme. Both books are the outcome of the 1937 visit of Dos Passos and Hemingway to Spain during which their friendship broke up in a sharp quarrel on political as well as personal grounds.
Johnny Got His Gun: ''''Johnny Got His Gun''''' is an anti-war novel written in 1938 by American novelist Dalton Trumbo and published in September 1939