Winds of War

✍ Scribed by Wouk, Herman

• Book ID: 109337768
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Year: 1971
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 672 KB
• Series: Henry Family 1
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

This explosive story sets the historical stage for Herman Wouk�s novel, War and Remembrance.

In this massive, best-selling novel � over one year on national best-seller lists � Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk re-creates two of the most dramatic years of the twentieth century, taking the entire planet for his stage.� Form Washington, D.C., to the capitals of Europe to Pearl Harbor, The Winds of War pulses with the life of those great and terrible days � it�s huge cast of characters including Hitler, Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill, and ordinary men and women like the Henrys, an American naval family whose deeds were never recorded in the annals of history.

�Compulsively Readable� � Saturday Review

�Crammed with climactic episodes of the war . . . structured along broad, sweeping lines, impelled by historical sequences and charged with real-life figures, and with the whole world as setting, the novel tells the intimate story of and American family � a Navy family � caught up in the vortex of world conflict. . . . World history comes to life at a personal, eyewitness level.� It takes on a behind-the-scenes quality.� At the same time we become deeply interested in all the doings of the Henry clan.� � Philidelphia Inquirer

�First-rate storytelling. . . . It succeeds most admirably in that always tricky business of combining true history with fiction, and actual characters with fictional ones.� � The New York Times

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