johnny got his gun Author:dalton trumbo 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. the establishment has chosen to ignore it, but even the establishment could not prevent it from becoming the gr... more »eat american "underground" classic. 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...