- Fiction in English, Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Classic Literature
Follows the various members of the Henry family as they become involved in the events preceeding America's involvement in World War II. Like no other masterpiece of historical fiction, Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II is the great novel of America's Greatest Generation. Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events, as well as all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II, as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom. The Winds of War and its sequel War and Remembrance stand as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers.
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Earnest, epic, classical in form and grave.
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Herman Wouk
- First published
- 1971
- Pages
- 960
- Publisher
- Collins, Simon & Schuster of Canada, Pocket Books
- Editions
- 52
- Language
- French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9782221003022
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“COMMANDER Victor Henry rode a taxicab home from the Navy Building on Constitution Avenue, in a gusty gray March rainstorm that matched his mood.”
Herman Wouk was an American author best known for historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951) for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. His other major works include The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, historical novels about World War II, and non-fiction such as This Is My God, an explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective, written for Jewish and non-Jewish audiences. His books have been translated into 27 languages.
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