- Fiction, World War, 1914-1918, Disfigured persons, Disabled veterans
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. --Publisher.
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Bleak, grave, overwhelming and earnest.
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- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Dalton Trumbo
- First published
- 1939
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corporation, Bantam Books
- Editions
- 42
- Language
- French, German, Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780553142358
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