New York: Rinehart and Company, 1948. First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth with spine lettered in white light wear to spine ends and front hinge; publisher's first -state unclipped dust jacket, sunning to spine, light wear to spine ends and front hinge.

"The narrative presents, with great accuracy and power, the agony of the American troops in the Pacific campaign...It remains Mailer's best, and certainly the best war novel to emerge from the United States" (Burgess, 99 Novels, pp. 42-43).