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This is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal, remorseless and gruesome. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered-not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives. When Joe first becomes aware of the extent of his injuries, including the loss of sight, smell, hearing and taste, he begins to re-live his life and revisit past. Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury accounting to eloquence.”- The New York Times 'Johnny Got His Gun' is an anti-war story told through the mind of US soldier, Joe Bonham, suffering from catastrophic injuries caused by an artillery bombardment during WWI.

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