Book · 1948 · Nonfiction
The Naked and the Dead
Picador (Macmillan) · 736 pages
★ 6.5 editorial score
America's novel of the Second World War, published when Mailer was twenty-five and just back from the Philippines. A reconnaissance platoon crosses a Japanese-held island while he tracks every man's fear.
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