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Also by Norman Mailer:

On God, October 2007
Hardcover
The Castle in the Forest, January 2007
Hardcover
The Naked and the Dead, August 2000
Paperback
The Executioner's Song, May 1998
Paperback
The Armies of the Night, January 1995
Paperback

THE NAKED AND THE DEAD
By: Norman Mailer

50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author

Picador
August 2000
On Sale: August 5, 2000
736 pages
ISBN: 0312265050
EAN: 9780312265052
Paperback
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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 enjoyed a long and well-deserved tenure in the American canon.This fiftieth anniversary edition features a new introduction created especially for the occasion by Norman Mailer.Written in fascinating detail, the story follows a platoon of foot soldiers who are fighting for the possession of 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.

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