Three Soldiers

John Dos Passos

⏱ 8 minAmerican classic

Three very different American soldiers are ground down by the vast dehumanizing machine of the First World War army, above all a sensitive Harvard musician whose soul is strangled by regimentation until his final doomed act of rebellion, desertion. Dos Passos's bitter, powerful early war novel.

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