Dalton Trumbo Libros

“Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury accounting to eloquence.”—The New York Times 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 mattered—not 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.

It was the war to end all wars, the global struggle that would finally make the world safe for democracy - at any cost. But one American soldier has paid a price beyond measure. And within the disfigured flesh that was once a vision of youth lives a spirit that cannot accept what the world has become. An immediate bestseller upon its first publication in 1939, Trumbo's stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of the First World War brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era. As timely as ever.

Protiválečný román amerického autora, poctěný Národní cenou a filmově ztvárněný, rozvíjí tragický příběh amerického vojáka, který byl na konci první světové války těžce zraněn granátem a jako lidská troska procitá k vědomí, zakouší pocity zoufalství, hněvu i smiřování s osudem.