Three young American soldiers are drafted in military and sent to France. But each has a reason to despise the war and to desert his post. What transpires next is a story of frustration, survival, betrayal and tragedy. The novel was inspired by author's own experiences during World War I. Passoswas an ambulance driver for American volunteer groups in Paris and Italy, before joining the U.S. Army Medical Corps.
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John Dos Passos. Three Soldiers
Three Soldiers
Table of Contents
PART ONE: MAKING THE MOULD
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PART TWO: THE METAL COOLS
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PART THREE: MACHINES
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PART FOUR: RUST
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PART FIVE: THE WORLD OUTSIDE
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PART SIX: UNDER THE WHEELS
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John Dos Passos
A World War I Novel
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He thought of himself and Chrisfield picking up cigarette butts and the tramp, tramp, tramp of feet on the drill field. Where was the connection? Was this all futile madness? They'd come from such various worlds, all these men sleeping about him, to be united in this. And what did they think of it, all these sleepers? Had they too not had dreams when they were boys? Or had the generations prepared them only for this?
He thought of himself lying under the crepe-myrtle bush through the hot, droning afternoon, watching the pale magenta flowers flutter down into the dry grass, and felt, again, wrapped in his warm blankets among all these sleepers, the straining of limbs burning with desire to rush untrammelled through some new keen air. Suddenly darkness overspread his mind.
