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The Naked and the Dead

by: Norman Mailer
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0586091157  9780586091159 

 

 

 

The Naked and the Dead  
By Norman Mailer

 

 


Date: 2006-01-21   Rating: 5
Review:

an amazing book

this is historical fiction of ww 2 , and an amazing read, Mailer
takes an immense interest in daily functions of troops , their emotional states and the general bureaucratic mundaneness of the assault on an isolated island in s pacific. He does in depth analysis of many features of us life in the 40s including the status of hispanic , jewish , southern and , bostonian soldiers.
He is an intense and insightful writer. Many excerpts are not politically correct , including frequent sexual references, the n word but it reflects the times that were. Of interest are the
long term perspectives of the General to the geopolitical status of the world, quite correctly that the focus would be on anticommunism and of a future war with russia. YOu will not put this down, so be prepared for some very emotional portions such as wilsons death in the jungle and rather gruesome details of the true cost of war,,,,,,,, from korea to midway to normandy and now in iraq.