Three Soldiers (1921) - John Dos Passos
Category: Classic
Narrator: George Guidall
Tags: Classic, Historical Fiction, Literature, Adults
Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. Release date: April 22, 2011 Duration: 14:53:42, When John Dos Passos published this book in 1921, its explosive portrait of World War I shocked America. Instead of glorifying the Great War, he shows three men caught in a military machine that is as dangerous for them as the foreign terrain and the enemies they fight., Fuselli leaves San Francisco for the front lines in France, anxious to move up the military ladder of success., Chrisfield, a farm boy from Indiana, feels himself swept along as he marches in a sea of other soldiers., And Andrews, a classical musician, searches for a sense of direction and meaning as he joins the ranks., Each will be swallowed up and changed forever by a vast, faceless automaton-the Army. Based on Dos Passos own experiences as an ambulance driver in Europe during World War I, Three Soldiers is honored as a classic antiwar novel. Sweeping in its scope and drama, it is riveting historical fiction., Intense and poignant, Dos
