Three Soldiers (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

The shock of the First World War defined the twentieth century for John Dos Passos and many others of his generation. After serving in a French volunteer ambulance service and then with the American Army in France, Dos Passos wrote his novel Three Soldiers (1921). The novel follows the intersecting lives of three Americans as they suffer the wars monotonous and dehumanizing military routine and co...