TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mailer, Norman
TI  - The Naked and the Dead
SN  - 9780312265052
AV  - PS3525.A4152 N34  
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New York
PB  - Picador
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Fiction
N2  - Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since become part of the American canon. This fiftieth anniversary edition features a new introduction created especially for the occasion by Norman Mailer.

Written in gritty, journalistic detail, the story follows an army platoon of foot soldiers who are fighting for the possession of the Japanese-held island of Anopopei. Composed in 1948, The Naked and the Dead is representative of the best in twentieth-century American writing
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