Three Soldiers

Three Soldiers is a 1921[1] novel by American writer and critic John Dos Passos.

H. L. Mencken praised the book in the pages of The Smart Set: "Until Three Soldiers is forgotten and fancy achieves its inevitable victory over fact, no war story can be written in the United States without challenging comparison with it—and no story that is less meticulously true will stand up to it.

At one blast it disposed of oceans of romance and blather.

They saw, no doubt, substantially what Dos Passos saw, but it took his bold realism to disentangle their recollections from the prevailing buncombe and sentimentality.

"[2] This article about a World War I novel first published in the 1920s is a stub.