Three Soldiers
John Dos Passos's Three Soldiers (1920) is a historical fiction novel.
A free LibriVox audiobook (14 h 38 min) is available.
About Three Soldiers
Three Soldiers is a 1920 novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First World War, and remains a classic of the realist war novel genre. H.L. Mencken, then practicing primarily as an American literary critic, praised the book in the pages of the Smart Set. "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." (Summary from Wikipedia)
Free audiobook
Three Soldiers — LibriVox recording, 14 h 38 min in 17 sections.
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Quick answers
Who wrote Three Soldiers?
Three Soldiers was written by John Dos Passos and first published in 1920.
What genre is Three Soldiers?
It is usually shelved as Historical Fiction.
Is there a free audiobook of Three Soldiers?
Yes — LibriVox volunteers recorded it; the recording runs 14 h 38 min.
What books are similar to Three Soldiers?
Readers who like it often enjoy The Great Gatsby, The Wind in the Willows and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
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