Johnny Got His Gun
Dalton Trumbo • 1939
Devastation Rating
war trauma philosophical survival
Our Take
The most anti-war novel ever written. Joe Bonham cannot move, cannot see, cannot speak, cannot die, can only think. Trumbo locks you inside that skull and makes you feel every absence. A book about war that never shows the battlefield because it doesn't need to.
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