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.