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Dalton Trumbo


Johnny Got His Gun

Johnny Got His Gun

Dalton Trumbo

Joe Bonham, a young American soldier serving in World War I, awakens in a hospital bed after being caught in the blast of an exploding artillery shell. He gradually realizes that he has lost his arms, legs, and all of his face (including his eyes, ears, teeth, and tongue), but that his mind functions perfectly, leaving him a prisoner in his own body.

Joe attempts suicide by suffocation, but finds that he had been given a tracheotomy which he can neither remove nor control. At first Joe wishes to die, but later decides that he desires to be placed in a glass box and toured around the country in order to show others the true horrors of war. Joe successfully communicates these desires with military officials by banging his head on his pillow in Morse code. However, he realizes that neither desire will be granted, and it is implied that he will live the rest of his natural life in his condition.

As Joe drifts between reality and fantasy, he remembers his old life with his family and girlfriend, and reflects upon the myths and realities of war.

The Remarkable Andrew: Being the Chronicle of a Literal Man

The Remarkable Andrew: Being the Chronicle of a Literal Man

Dalton Trumbo

Young Andrew Long has three interests in life; working as hard as he can as a bookkeeper at his city council, his fiancée Peggy Tobin and the study of American History with a hero worship of President and General Andrew Jackson. When Long discovers the municipal books don't add up and money is missing the guilty corrupt parties aim to discredit then imprison him. Long finds his saviour when General Jackson returns to Earth to help him with aid of several other Founding Fathers of the United States.

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