by Dalton Trumbo (Author), Dalton Trumbo (Introduction by)
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.
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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
Number of Pages: 243
Dimensions: 0.9 x 7.6 x 4.2 IN
Publication Date: March 01, 1984
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Johnny Got His Gun
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 5.9
Point Value: 11
