The armies of the night history as a novel the novel as history skip to the end of the images gallery skip to the beginning of the images gallery the armies of the night history as a novel the novel as history 9 ocen ten produkt jako pierwszy among the marchers is norman mailer. norman mailer the armies of the night history as a novel the novel as history it has been a long time since ive read mailer i read the executioners song when i was a mormon missionary in a lazyboy while my companion snored in the next room in grand junction colorado in 1993. The armies of the night history as a novel the novel as history is a nonfiction novel recounting the october 1967 march on the pentagon written by norman mailer and published by new american library in 1968 it won the pulitzer prize for general non fiction and the national book award in category arts and letters mailers unique rendition of the non fiction novel was perhaps his most . Winner of the pulitzer prize and the national book award fifty years after the march on the pentagon norman mailers seminal tour de force remains as urgent and incisive as ever winner of americas two highest literary awards the armies of the night uniquely and unforgettably captures the sixties tidal wave of love and rage at its crest and a towering genius at his peak. The armies of the night chronicles the famed october 1967 march on the pentagon in which all of the old and new left hippies yuppies weathermen quakers christians feminists and intellectuals came together to protest the vietnam war alongside his contemporaries mailer went witnessed participated suffered and then wrote one of the most stark and intelligent appraisals of the