<div>Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, <i>The Naked and the Dead</i> 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.<br><br>Written in gritty, journalistic detail, the story follows a platoon of Marines who are stationed on 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, <i>The Naked and the Dead</i> is representative of the best in twentieth-century American writing.<br></div>