Johnny Got His Gun

Johnny Got His GunDescription by Dalton Trumbo Paperback 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 matterednot 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.

committed to fighting for democracy at home and beyond

Beyond those specific images lie broader themes: the intersection of individual lives and entire nations

engaging with key debates around the adequacy of British generalship and whether or not there was a significant 'learning curve' in terms of the development of operational art during the course of the war

by Thomas M

by Derek Donovan

The Panthéon de la Guerre was a cyclorama the size of a football field

Phyllis Campbell and T

Even more odd is that he shares the same first name with the man

and with it a different kind of hero emerges–the flying ace

From humble beginnings in rural Mississippi

a new generation of scholars has taken the investigation further back

by Robert J