Johnny Got His Gun
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Johnny Got His Gun is a war novel written in 1938 by American novelist Dalton Trumbo and published in September 1939 by J. B. Lippincott. The novel won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most
First edition
Curley Christian
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Ethelbert "Curley" Christian was a Canadian First World War veteran and activist. He has been described as "one of Canada's best known black soldiers" from that war.
Johnny Got His Gun
…The novel is inspired by articles about two men with severe injuries that Trumbo read about: the tearful hospital visit of Edward, Prince of Wales to Curley Christian, considered to be the only Canadian soldier in WWI who was a quadruple amputee, and a British major whose body was damaged so horrifically that he was…
Curley Christian in 1936