title: The naked and the dead
author:  Norman Mailer 
description: Reissue of a modern classic -- the book that catapulted Norman Mailer to fame on its first publication in 1948. 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 amisdst the sounds and fury of battle.
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  The naked and the dead
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Norman Mailer
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  New York, N.Y. : Picador/H. Holt, 1998. (1948)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  From Library Journal
  
  
  
  
  
  This 50th-anniversary edition of Mailer's World War II epic contains a new
  introduction by the author. If your current copy is falling apart, now is the
  time to replace it.  
  
  
  Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
  
  
  
  
  
  Review
  
  
  
  
  
  "The best novel to come out of the . . . war, perhaps the best book to come
  out of any war."—San Francisco Chronicle
  
  
  
  
  
  "Best novel yet about World War II."—Time
  
  
  
  
  
  "Brutal, agonizing, astonishingly thoughtful."—Newsweek
  
  
  
  
  
  "Nightmarish masterpiece of realism."—Cleveland News
  
  
  
  
  
  "Vibrant with life, abundant with real people, full of memorable scenes. To
  call it merely a great book about the war would be to minimize its total
  achievement."—The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  
  
  
  
  "The most important American novel since Moby-Dick."—Providence Journal  
  
  
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