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Norman Mailer

USA · Pacific War — fiction

About

Served with the 112th Cavalry in the Philippines. The Naked and the Dead, published when he was twenty-five, made his name.

Books in Database (1)

The Naked and the Dead cover
The Naked and the Dead 1948 · 721 pages

A platoon of American soldiers fights to take a Japanese-held island in the Pacific.

Historical Fiction

Events Covered

1942 Guadalcanal Campaign