The reputation of the American novelist John Roderigo Dos Passos (1896-1970) is based chiefly on his early work, especially the trilogy "U.S.A." John Dos Passos was born in Chicago on Jan. 14, 1896, the illegitimate son of a noted New York lawyer, John R...
For readers familiar with his work in the 1920s and 1930s, John Dos Passos's public image seemed clearly defined. His friends and colleagues were expatriate writers such as Ernest Hemingway, experimental dramatists such as John Howard/Lawson, and moderni...
For readers in the 1930s and 1940s the career of John Dos Passos had its puzzling aspects, but the image of the man seemed to possess a certain clarity. He was, according to the dust jackets, "Chicago-born," hence another of the mid-western realists, a r...
Three Soldiers is a 1920[1] 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 practising primarily as an...
BRITAIN'S armed forces today suffered another black day as three soldiers were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Two troops died and two were wounded when a UK military convoy was attacked while on patrol in Basra, southern Iraq. The deaths came a...
Taliban gunmen crept up to an Afghan government office under cover of darkness early Wednesday and launched a battle that left three Afghan soldiers and four attackers dead, police said. The attack came after an explosion earlier in the week killed a motorcyclist...
Some of the deadliest aircraft crashes involving U.S. troops in Iraq:_ Jan. 20: A helicopter crashed northeast of Baghdad, killing all 13 soldiers on board. The military did not issue its customary statement that the aircraft was not shot down, indicating it may have been...
A leading Cuban human rights group on Monday urged governments around the world to petition Havana to spare the lives of army deserters who could face a firing squad for allegedly killing soldiers as they fled military bases.The statement by the non-governmental Cuban Commission for...
