While he lies in the hospital, completely covered by bandages and heavy, tent-like blankets, the drugged Joe wonders where he is and drifts into a memory of the night before he left for the war, when he was with his sweetheart Kareen: Despite Kareen's pleading that Joe not enlist, he states that he must, and the couple makes love for the first time. Unknown to Tillery or the other medical personnel, the soldier, twenty-year-old American Joe Bonham, has full mental abilities, although he cannot yet control his lapses of consciousness. Despite the unease of the other doctors, Tillery is determined to study the soldier, and insists that if the youth had more than mere basal metabolic functions, he would not have allowed him to live. Tillery, declares that the youth has no higher brain functions.

Urn:oclc:824197425 Republisher_date 20161202153540 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 761 Scandate 20161202023213 Scanner World War I, an unidentified, grievously wounded soldier is saved by a team of surgeons, although the head doctor, Col. 'Johnny Got His Gun' remains the most revolutionary, searing document against was and injustice ever written.'Īccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:01:42.427096 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1146402 Boxid_2 CH132707 City New York Edition 1st Carol Pub. 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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