Johnny Got His Gun
Title | Johnny Got His Gun PDF eBook |
Author | Dalton Trumbo |
Publisher | Kensington Publishing Corp. |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2013-11-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0806537604 |
The Searing Portrayal Of War That Has Stunned And Galvanized Generations Of Readers An immediate bestseller upon its original publication in 1939, Dalton Trumbo?s stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of World War I brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era. Johnny Got His Gun is an undisputed classic of antiwar literature that?s as timely as ever. ?A terrifying book, of an extraordinary emotional intensity.?--The Washington Post "Powerful. . . an eye-opener." --Michael Moore "Mr. Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury amounting to eloquence."--The New York Times "A book that can never be forgotten by anyone who reads it."--Saturday Review
The Eyes of the Dragon Art Portfolio
Title | The Eyes of the Dragon Art Portfolio PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Suntup |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 45 |
Release | 2017-07-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780998864914 |
This finely crafted art portfolio includes twenty-two black & white illustrations and two color illustrations by David Palladini. The artwork originally appeared in the trade edition of The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King. This edition includes an exclusive afterword by David Palladini which is letterpress printed. The lettered edition is limited to twenty-six copies and measures 12" x 18". The text and illustrations are printed on 100% cotton paper and are housed in a custom clamshell box covered in Japanese book cloth over wood boards. The edition includes a previously unpublished illustration as well as a reproduction of the only extant copy of the original title page illustration hand-colored by David Palladini. The lettered edition includes a signed limited photogravure print which has been hand-pulled on Somerset Velvet 100% cotton mould made paper with deckled edges from St. Cuthbert's Mill, England. The portfolio is signed by artist David Palladini.
Johnny Get Your Gun
Title | Johnny Get Your Gun PDF eBook |
Author | John F Tucker |
Publisher | Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | 215 |
Release | 2015-02-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1473827507 |
At the age of seventeen-and-a-half, full of idealism and patriotism, John Tucker enlisted as an Infantryman in the London Kensington Regiment and reached France, after training, in August 1915. Against all odds he survived three years of bitter trench warfare, was seriously wounded, and returned to Blighty a few months before Armistice Day. During those years he took part in the Battle of the Somme, the battles of Arras and Cambrai, and the Third Battle of Ypres. Yet though his patriotism remained unflinching, his idealism gave way to the grim realities of day to day survival in the trenches and, as he began to understand what constitutes courage, he grew from boyhood to manhood.??The author contrasts the beauties of the French countryside with the ugliness of widespread death and destruction, and paints a picture of French country life hardly less squalid than the soldiers' own lot. But above all, he makes the reader realise what it was like to fight in the war to end all wars.??These are the memoirs of one Infantryman, but through his eyes a vivid canvas of the whole war gradually unfolds.
Fender Lizards
Title | Fender Lizards PDF eBook |
Author | Joe R. Lansdale |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015-11-30 |
Genre | Texas |
ISBN | 9781596067172 |
Dot waitresses on roller skates at the Dairy Bob, doesn't care for smoking at least partly on account of her dad having never returned from a cigarette run, and carries on the family tradition of philosophizing. Life hasn't done her any favors in her seventeen years so far. But if there was ever a heroine built for turning things upside down and seeing what shakes out, it's Dot. Determined to find out who she is and why she's the way she is, an opportunity presents itself when her heretofore-unknown uncle suddenly moves his camper into the front yard.
Komma
Title | Komma PDF eBook |
Author | Antonia Hirsch |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780973813395 |
"The companion piece to a 16 mm film installation by the same title, Komma (After Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun) is based on Hollywood scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo's seminal anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun. As a modified facsimile of the original book's first edition, the project reimagines Trumbo's novel through its syntactical idiosyncrasy: the omission of all commas. The book includes an accompanying pamphlet with essays by Maria Muhle and Kristina Lee Podesva."--Publisher's website, viewed November 18, 2021.
Waiting for Eden
Title | Waiting for Eden PDF eBook |
Author | Elliot Ackerman |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 146 |
Release | 2019-09-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101971568 |
“Patiently, and unflinchingly, Ackerman is becoming one of the great poet laureates of America’s tragic adventurism across the globe.” —Pico Iyer Eden lies in a hospital bed, unable to move or speak. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his room. We see them through the eyes of Eden’s best friend, a fellow Marine who didn’t make it back home—and who must relive the secrets held between all three of them as he waits for Eden to finally, mercifully die and join him in whatever comes after. A breathtakingly spare and shattering novel that explores the unseen aftereffects—and unacknowledged casualties—of war, Waiting for Eden is a piercingly insightful, deeply felt meditation on loyalty, friendship, betrayal, and love. “The Tim O’Brien of our era.” —Vogue “Devastating.” —The Wall Street Journal “Haunting. . . . Daring.” —The Boston Globe “Heart-wrenching.” —NPR
Company K
Title | Company K PDF eBook |
Author | William March |
Publisher | University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | 287 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0817304800 |
A collection of short first-person narratives by the members of a company caught in the frontline in the first World War.