| Johnny Got His Gun Contributor(s): Trumbo, Dalton (Author) |
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ISBN: 0553274325 ISBN-13: 9780553274325 Publisher: Bantam OUR PRICE: $8.09 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: March 1984 Annotation: 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 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | War & Military - Fiction | Political |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 970 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 4.2" W x 6.89" (0.29 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Chronological Period - 1920's |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 12788 Reading Level: 5.9 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 11.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury accounting to eloquence."--The New York Times 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. |