![]() ![]() Martin Luther King- but there has been nothing out of that body of great literature to compare to this book. Upon my return from the war, and after all these twenty-two years spent in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the mid-chest down, I've read many writers that have influenced my life profoundly- Hemingway, Conrad, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Dr. ![]() ""Johnny Got His Gun" still remains the most powerful piece of writing to influence me after Vietnam. ![]() Citadel Underground's edition of "Johnny Got His Gun" features a powerful new introduction by Ron Kovic, author of "Born on the Fourth of July", and also includes an introduction by Dalton Trumbo. This fiercely moving novel was a rallying point for many Americans who came of age during World War II, and it became perhaps the most popular novel of protest during the Vietnam era. ![]() First published in 1939, Dalton Trumbo's story of a young American soldier terribly maimed in World War I- he "survives" armless, legless, and faceless, but with mind intact- was an immediate bestseller. "Johnny Got His Gun" holds a place as one of the classic antiwar novels. ![]()
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