Three Soldiers Paperback - 1997
by John Dos Passos; Townsend Ludington (Editor)
A searing novel exposing the fate of the common soldier during World War I. Driven by the idealism that infected many young Americans at the time (including Ernest Hemingway), author John Dos Passos joined the Ambulance Corps. His rapid and profound disillusionment forms the core of this fierce denouncement of the military and of the far-reaching social implications of its exploitation of young men.
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John Dos Passos had just returned from studying architecture in Spain when America entered World War I and - driven by the idealism that infected many young Americans (including Hemingway and e.e. cummings) - he joined up as a driver for the Ambulance Corps. His rapid and profound disillusionment forms the core of Three Soldiers, a fierce denunciation of the military and of the far-reaching social implications of its exploitation of young men. The novel focuses on three main characters: Andrews, a young composer who finally revolts against the war's deadening regimentation; Chrisfield, an Indiana farm boy who chants the words "make the world safe for democracy" to himself in a futile attempt to block out the noises and terrors of battle; and Fuselli, a clerk who clings to the dream of becoming a corporal despite the mockery of his fellow soldiers. Required to renounce their individuality and to conform with unquestioning obedience, each one, in different ways, is ineradicably scarred by the dehumanizing effects of war.
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- Title Three Soldiers
- Author John Dos Passos; Townsend Ludington (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, London
- Date 1997-12-01
- ISBN 9780141180274 / 0141180277
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 0.9 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Library of Congress subjects War stories, Soldiers
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97018911
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Library Journal, 11/01/2013, Page 54
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