The naked and the dead
by Norman Mailer
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Written in gritty, journalistic detail, The Naked and the Dead follows a platoon of Marines who are stationed on the Japanese-held island of Anopopei. Composed in 1948 with the wisdom of a man twice Mailer's age and the raw courage of the young man he was, The Naked and the Dead is representative of the best in twentieth-century American writing. This fiftieth anniversary edition features a new introduction created especially for the occasion by Norman Mailer.
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Fiction, Men and war, Soldiers, World War, 1939-1945, Campaigns, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Marines, Military campaigns, Fiction, war & military, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), American Participation, Military participation, American, Fiction, historical, generalPlaces
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The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author
August 5, 2000, Picador
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The naked and the dead
1998, H. Holt
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The naked and the dead
1981, Henry Holt and Company, Henry Holt & Company
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"NOBODY COULD sleep."
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Based on Mailer’s own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, The Naked and the Dead is a graphically truthful and shattering portrayal of ordinary men in battle. First published in 1949, as America was still basking in the glories of the Allied victory, it altered forever the popular perception of warfare.
Focusing on the experiences of a fourteen-man platoon stationed on a Japanese-held island in the South Pacific during World War II, and written in a journalistic style, it tells the moving story of the soldiers' struggle to retain a sense of dignity amidst the horror of warfare, and to find a source of meaning in their lives amidst the sounds and fury of battle.
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