In the canon
The Naked and the Dead
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1948
- Pages
- Pages 720
American soldiers slog through jungle and mud to take a Pacific island from Japan, while their sadistic sergeant drives a reconnaissance patrol to disaster on a mountain that turns out not to matter to how the battle is actually won.
Nobody could sleep. When morning came, assault craft would be lowered and a first wave of troops would ride through the surf and charge ashore.
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