The Armies of the NightMailer's classic account of the 1967 anti Vietnam War rally in Washington D. C., and one of the best 'nonfiction novels' ever written. October 21, 1967, Washington, D. C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover overhead and federal marshals and soldiers with fixed bayonets await them on the Pentagon steps. Among the marchers is Norman Mailer. From his own singular participation in the day's events