A review by book_concierge
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

3.0

Talk about the futility of war! This is a classic war novel, published just 3 years post the end of WW II. We learn the individual strengths and flaws of each man in the platoon and how battle affects him. Mailer was required to tone down the language when it was first published so he uses "creative" spelling ... but we know what he meant to write.