Part one of John Dos Passos USA Trilogy, The 42nd Parallel, offers the modern reader a caustic and human journey into the struggle of the American working class, as it was in early part of the 20th century, and remarkably, today as well.
The best war fiction tries to reveal what Wilfred Owen called “...the truth untold,/The pity of war, the pity war distilled;" war conjures a pity in people that the very endurance of war itself gradually turns into its acceptance as the nature of things.No wonder then that as a former Marine in “The Shit” in the late 1960’s, it took Karl Marlantes 30 years to write Matterhorn.
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James Dugan
