Three Soldiers
by John Dos Passos
Three Soldiers is one of the greatest American war novels of World War I, which remains a classic of the realistic war novel genre. This powerful study of the inhumane effects of war remains profoundly modern. This dark realistic depiction of army life follows three young men battling regiment, the violence of military service, and boredom. Fuselli, a store clerk in San Francisco, accepts fit in hopes of a promotion. Crisfield, a rancher from Indiana, and Andrews, a talented musician, build on a routine of drug jungle and battlefield horror.
