Based on his own experiences from military service in the Philippines during World War II, "The Naked and the Dead" is a graphic, true, and shocking depiction of ordinary men at war. First published in 1949, as America was still savoring the glories of the Allied victory, it forever changed the popular perception of war. Focusing on the experiences of a platoon of fourteen men stationed on a Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific during World War II, and written in a journalistic style, it tells the moving story of soldiers struggling to maintain a sense of dignity amid the horrors of war and to find a source of meaning in their lives despite the sounds and fury of battle. Pages: 688, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm