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Johnny Got His Gun holds a place as one of the classic antiwar novels. First published in 1939, Dalton Trumbo's story of a young American soldier terribly maimed in WWI - he survives armless, legless and faceless, bur with mind intact - was an immediate bestseller. This fiercely moving novel was a rallying point for many Americans who came of age during WWII and it became perhaps the most powerful novel of protest during the Vietnam era.
