"Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury accounting to eloquence."—The New York TimesThis was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy.
And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered—not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives.... This is no ordinary novel. This is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying ...