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Notes

Running time: 14 hours and 39 minutes
Read by: mb
Book Coordinator: mb
Meta Coordinator: Barry Eads
Proof Listener: TriciaG

Artwork

Cover:  Page 157 from "The War of the Nations: Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings," published by the New York Times shortly after the 1919 armistice.
Inset: Cover of the first edition of Three Soldiers
Inset:  Portrait of John Dos Passos, 1927, Literatura, Hungarian Monthly, Christmas Album, 1927Insert: Photo of three Australian soldiers: Frederick George Milne, Oliver Harrison Ladlow, and Albert Ladlow.

Recordings
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Like many young men at the time of the outbreak of the First World War, John Dos Passos was driven by idealism to serve and joined the Ambulance Corps.  His experience there led to a rapid and profound disillusionment that eventually found expression in his second novel, Three Soldiers, which brought him some recognition when published in 1921.  In this tale of three soldiers, each from different geographic regions and social milieus, Dos Passos found his satirical voice and crafted a searing denunciation of the military and its shameless exploitation of naïve young men.   His soldiers endure the anxiety of long waits in sodden trenches that suddenly give way to battles that combine the timeless practice of frontal assault with the mechanized efficiency of modern weapons, airplanes, and mustard gas.

"Until Three Soldiers is forgotten and fancy achieves its inevitable victory over fact, no war story can be written in the United States without challenging comparison with it—and no story that is less meticulously true will stand up to it. At one blast it disposed of oceans of romance and blather. It changed the whole tone of American opinion about the war; it even changed the recollections of actual veterans of the war. They saw, no doubt, substantially what Dos Passos saw, but it took his bold realism to disentangle their recollections from the prevailing buncombe and sentimentality.” - H. L. Mencken, Smart Set, 69, October 1922


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EAN - DVD case 0701236969467
EAN - CD jacket 0686175924299
Media MP3 CD
Package DVD Case
Author John Dos Passos (1896-1970)
Year 1921
Recording
Read by mb
Length 14 hours and 39 minutes
Type of Reading Solo

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