A young American soldier wakes in a hospital bed after the Great War to a silence deeper than death. His arms and legs are gone, his face destroyed, his voice lost. Trapped within his own mind, he drifts between memories of youth and the unbearable truth of what remains.
Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun is a stark and unflinching portrait of war’s true cost. First published in 1939 and rediscovered during the Vietnam era, it endures as one of literature’s most haunting indictments of violence and dehumanization. The novel’s raw stream of consciousness and emotional force have stunned generations of readers.
Hailed as “terrifying” by The Washington Post, it remains one of the most powerful antiwar novels ever written.
