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Title: The Winds of War by Herman Wouk ISBN: 0316952664 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.63
Rating: 5
Summary: History with a personal perspective...
Comment: I read Winds of War (and then its sequel, War and Remembrance) a few years ago and enjoyed it thoroughly.
Herman Wouk weaves in the story of the Henry family through the ordeal of Second World War. The reader gets a very personal look at World War II (on all fronts, including the Holocaust) through the eyes of this tight knit American family.
Although it's a pretty big book, the pages fly by...!
Rating: 5
Summary: Should Be Required Reading For All High School Students
Comment: This magnificent book and its sequel, War and Remembrance, ought to be read by every person too young to have lived the events recorded here. It is a wonderfully readable history, with terrifically developed characters and meticulously researched historical references. In fact, my dad, a World War II veteran, found this book to be a compelling read as well, because he fought in southern Europe and was unaware of events in the Pacific and the Eastern front.
I have personally read this book over a dozen times and I've enjoyed it every time. The TV miniseries was a pretty good adaptation, but no substitute for the actual read. I'm looking forward to another long vacation soon, so I can read it again. Please, buy this book and read it; you'll never regret it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very Good, just misses great.
Comment: I just recently read Winds of War and its sequel, War and Remembrance. They were both excellent novels. Wouk strikes me as a talented writer, who employs all the technical tools of his trade-such as using letters, excerpts from a military analysis (fictional) to help lend depth to his characters and a framework for the events of the novel.
Winds of War, in particular, grabbed me and by the end I was frantic to get to the sequel to find out what happens to the Henry clan. I agree with another reviewer who writes about the steady developement and changes to Byron and how believeable it is. A great read (both of them) I would also recommend for similar novels (albeit different periods) "A Soldier of the Great War" and "Killer Angels"
One final note, you may want to pause b/w reading the two novels as I found towards the latter third of War and Remembrance that I was getting tired of the book, but I read the two back to back over the course of three weeks.
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Title: War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk ISBN: 0316954993 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Caine Mutiny: A Novel by Herman Wouk ISBN: 0316955108 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title:War and Remembrance - Volume 1 ASIN: B00006IZQO Publisher: Mpi Media Group Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $129.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $116.98 |
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Title:War and Remembrance - Volume 2 ASIN: B00007G1WO Publisher: Mpi Media Group Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $129.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $116.98 |
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Title: Exodus by Leon Uris ISBN: 0553258478 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1983 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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