I'm pretty sure that the only trees that Dos Passos is aware of are poplars. June 1st 2002 It’s about three soldiers only nominally as most of it is about John Andrews, a Harvard man, aspiring composer who rebels against any exercise of authority from the army to social propriety; everything “enslaves” him. Three soldiers are killed, one of whom is Bob, aka Sacred Bob, aka Scared Bob. “So Henry found himself stepping off the bus three stops early and wandering over to the Panama Hotel, a place between worlds when he was a child, a place between times now that he was a grown man.” ― Jamie Ford, quote from Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet I wanted to read a World War I novel. by IndyPublish.com. Each soldier lives on in the memory of his family to this day.They stand at the head of a ghost army three million strong, all of whom have no known grave. "Three Soldiers" is one of the earliest novels to come out of the First World War to express the disgust and disillusionment felt by many Americans who had participated in it. His inchoate anti authoritarianism, it’s hardly radicalism. I understand that dos Passos eventually became disabused of the utopia of communism, but he had not been so enlightened when he penned this. The writing style was nicely portrayed but the characters were disappointing. AbeBooks.com: Dos Passos: Novels 1920-1925: One Man's Initiation: 1917, Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer (The Library of America) (9781931082396) by John Dos Passos and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. The true stories of the three soldiers are extremely engaging and very interesting. In 1900, a class of young women from an exclusive private school go on an excursion to the isolated Hanging Rock, deep in the Australian bush. Their story is the story of the "Unknown Soldier". Like an impressionist painter, the context is vividly draw while the characters and plot are always hovering in the shadows. It did not seem in the least controversial today. The book started off good describing young men anxious to join the army to fight in WWI hoping for glory like what they saw in the movies, but what they foun. The main part of this book revolves around Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris, which for Kipling he refer's to as 'the three musketeers'. Note: The President spoke at 4:30 p.m. at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall. Welcome back. There was less emphasis than I expected on the experiences in battle, but the chapters on the war were powerful. This not a book just about the world war 1, but it is about the American experience in that war seen through a man that was young American, that volunteered his services before America's involvement & also after American intervention. I wanted to read a World War I novel. And, somehow, dos Passos seemed. 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