Based on the author's first-hand experience as an ambulance driver during World War I, this first novel is noteworthy for its vivid and colorful portrait of France at that time and for its passionate indictment of war. The author's disillusionment with war, for a time, turned him toward socialism and against capitalism. Finally, after being labeled "pro-German" and "pacifist," Dos Passos concluded that the quasi-religion of Marxism was far more brutal than "poor old Capitalism ever dreamed of." Reprinted from the unexpurgated original edition published by Cornell University Press in 1969.
- ISBN10 1598180800
- ISBN13 9781598180800
- Publish Date 1 December 2006 (first published 15 April 1986)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Imprint Aegypan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 128
- Language English