John Dos Passos's first novel, published in 1920, recounts the horrors and absurdities of the Great War as witnessed by an ambulance driver. The author saw the things he fictionalized, setting the template for a career that would produce the great American novel, U.S.A. A brief review from the Bookman in 1922 of the American edition of One Man's Initiation says it well: "The literary workmanship is remarkably skillful as war is forced to parade in nakedness — robbed of its chauvanistic, romance-embroidered clothing."
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