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War and Remembrance (The Winds of War, 2) Paperback – February 5, 2002

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A masterpiece of historical fiction and "a journey of extraordinary riches" (New York Times Book Review), War and Remembrance stands as perhaps the great novel of America's "Greatest Generation."

These two classic works capture the tide of world events even as they unfold the compelling tale of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom.

The multimillion-copy bestsellers that capture all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of the Second World War -- and that constitute Wouk's crowning achievement -- are available for the first time in trade paperback.

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February 5, 2002
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0316954993
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978-0316954990
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"Stirring...A journey of extraordinary riches."―New York Times Book Review

"Moving, thrilling fiction...Wouk is a magnificent storyteller."―Boston Globe

"Those who lived through World War II can most fully appreciate the resonances in this uncommonly readable book. but it is clearly meant -- and recommended -- for those who did not."―Time

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Herman Wouk's acclaimed novels include the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Caine Mutiny; Marjorie Morningstar; Don't Stop the Carnival; Youngblood Hawke; Inside, Outside; The Hope; and The Glory.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Back Bay Books; Reprint edition (February 5, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 1056 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316954993
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316954990
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 950L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.92 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.25 x 1.75 x 5.5 inches

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Herman Wouk earned his living as a scriptwriter for Fred Allen before serving in World War II. His career as a novelist spans nearly six decades and has brought him resounding international acclaim. He lives in Palm Springs, California.

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WeazGirl205InAZ

Bestseller! Couldn't put it down!

Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2024

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From the second I received this book and began reading it, I was unable to put it down. I actually called in sick to work on day so I could finish it. It was very well written and articulated.

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Mike Jagd

Easy to read entertaining history.

Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2023

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An almost plausible navy family struggles with the buffeting "winds" of war. Great and accurate history told with excellent characters in realistic situations. If you missed this older pair of books or read it a long time ago...now it's a worthy way to spend some evenings.

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LLS

Amazing story of WWII from the inside

Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2023

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Everyone should read War and Remembrances and Winds of War. I read them about 30 years ago but thought I'd like to go back and read them again to see how fragile this Democracy that we all take for granted and how close we came to loosing it at that time. As the saying goes,"Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it".

Dare I say, it looks very much like we're getting domed to repeat it. In these 2 books you can see so many parallels.

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Kyle L. Rhynerson

Outstanding WW2 historical fiction

Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2014

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“War and Remembrance” is the conclusion to Herman Wouk’s two book series detailing World War 2. This long, epic novel picks up where the “The Winds of War” leaves off and continues to follow the lives of the fictitious Henry family. Wouk refers to his novel as a romance, and there are definitely elements of love in this story that drive the main characters and you can see that brought out in the overall life and death struggles that took place between December 1941 and August 1945.

As with “The Winds of War”, I caution readers that this is an extremely long, slow building story. If you are looking for excitement on every page, thrilling battle scenes, and passionate love scenes, you really need to find a different book; however, this is a great book if you are enjoy a family saga and learning about historic events from World War 2. This is a fictional narrative, but I was surprised how many new things I learned that were historically accurate. I kept a tablet on hand, and I would look up things that I had never heard of before and I found each time, Wouk recorded accurate historical events. Some examples include the weakness and fall of “Fortress Saigon”, the Wannsee Protocol outlining the extermination of Jews, the conference in Tehran, Iran between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin that solidified the second front in Europe, the “paradise ghetto” (i.e., concentration camp) of Theresienstadt for prominent Jews, and the devastating 872 day siege of Leningrad.

There were times where it felt a little incredible that one family could be involved in so many key events from World War 2, but that is forgivable given this is historical fiction rather than a story told form the perspectives of a real family. Once you get past that notion, I found it an entertaining way to follow the war from Russian, English, German, and American perspectives. Wouk clearly makes it known that he made up General Armin Von Roon and his “World Holocaust” military treatise, but I thought that was a masterful way to view things from the German perspective and leap ahead through certain elements of the war.

World War 2 was a dark time in the history of the world, and this novel took on a darker tone as Wouk painfully detailed the deplorable conditions, the harsh mistreatment, and the unbelievable practice of killing millions of Jews at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Wouk walked a fine line in this novel of telling about this horrible place without going into extremely gruesome details and especially avoiding the sexual assaults that took place. I am thankful he did not “record one one-thousandth of the daily agony, brutality, and degradation” that took place. Despite his restraint, I still found some of these sections sad and mind-numbing to get through as I would shake my head at how inhumane people could be to each other.

I found elements of the story deeply touching and insightful for us to remember and reflect upon. One example was the description of the naval battle at Leyte Gulf where Wouk described the bravery of our Navy, “Our schoolchildren should know about that incident, and our enemies should ponder it.” Another was the brutal honesty about nations that make war when Wouk wrote, “War has always been a violent blindman’s buff, played with men’s lives and nations’ resources.” Speaking on the honor of our fighting men, “Lucky indeed for America that in this [Pacific] theater and at that juncture she depended not on boys drafted or cajoled into fighting but on ‘tough guys’ who had volunteered to fight and who asked for nothing better than to come to grips with the sneaking enemy who had aroused all their primitive instincts.”

Overall, I think this book is an outstanding example of historical fiction that brings to life to the events of World War 2. I think Wouk aptly selected the title because it focuses on our need to remember the causes that led to this war, remember the soldiers, remember the atrocities, remember the sacrifices, and remember the innocent. As Wouk wrote, “Earth, cover not their blood”.

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Thomas M. Morgan

Not exactly a novel.

Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2011

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I intended to separately review "The Winds of War", then "War and Remembrance", but the author's design of the work is far to well integrated for this idea to create anything but a diversion from what the work represented. Take this as a combined work for both volumes. They are vastly different in scope and focus, but must be seen as essentially one work.

First a word about editions. I bought both for the Kindle, and feel a little swindled. Book 1 was okay--I mean, it was great, and the Kindle version was properly executed. CLEARLY, however, no one from the publisher or Amazon proof-read "War & Remembrance". It was a disaster. Bad enough that the artistic impact of the work was diminished. Amazon should offer some sort of guarantee for what it sells. Typos were common and serious through the first 80% of the book. I'm not sure whether I had just become more adept at ignoring them, or if there were less of them towards the end. This was a poorly produced offering--certainly not worth the ten dollars I paid for it. Searching the B&N "Nookbook" site, I find no mention of this poor production, but the Amazon site is loaded with disappointed purchasors. Maybe it's only bad in Kindle. So much for bitching and bad-mouthing.

The Winds of War captures events leading up to the United States entry into World War II, point of view being captured through the eyes of a career navy officer, his family, friends and acquaintances. It's a wonderful story, quickly engulfing the reader in its narrative. I cared about Capt. Victor Henry, his wife Roda, his sons Warren and Bryan, their wives, etc. All characters were well-drawn and credible.

War & Remembrance continues the story through the end of the war. It is not so artfully spun, but meticulously assembled.

You see, this second book revealed the purpose of the entire effort. Wouk created an epic polemic of the holocaust disguised as a novel. That virtually everyone forges on through the thousand page (print edition)tome is an incredible tribute to his craft.

Wouk artfully introduces Jewish characters (Winds of War)through the eyes of the Henry family to temporarily subordinate them. There are only two major Jewish characters; Dr. Aron Jastrow and his adult niece Natalie, for whom the first section of the book is named. Dr. Jastrow is a famous literati, having written a book-of-the-month club best seller, "A Jew's Jesus" which is excerpted in paraphrase through the first book and mentioned often in the second.

Captain Henry's erratic wandering son Bryan has quit his graduate studies in Italy and taken up residence with the eminent Dr. Jastrow as a research assistant of sorts. Jastrow is working on a book about the Emperor Constantine. While he claims no special relationship with her, it is evident from his correspondence that he is in the thrall of niece Natalie. This serves as the beginning pivot and secondary focus of both volumes. The Jastrow's (later Natalie Henry) become "stuck" in fascist Italy and go through a Homeric ordeal that ultimately carries them through various occupied areas of Europe, ending in Auschwitz.

As I've said, the books are wonderfully crafted and a delight to read, but the story is secondary. Wouk uses the Jastrows to personify the holocaust. Their story accounts for over a third of the second book. At the same time, he offers an overview of the holocaust events, partially through the employment of another Jastrow, Aaron's cousin Berel. Berel stayed in the "old country"--Poland--with the rest of the clan after Aaron's father relocated his branch of the family in America.

Berel is the Jewish superman. Seeing everything, doing everything and surviving everything. He takes his family eastward from the Nazi's during the fall of Poland, then re-emerges in Russia and, always in danger of capture, consistently avoids it until he joins the Russian army, where he is captured. Eventually (I've run the two books together here.) he is part of a work group of prisoners that digs up previously mass-murdered Jews and burns them.) He offers a cacaphony of sordid detail.

Ironically, what is most admirable about these books is Wouk's deceit. Who would buy books advertised as a detailed reminiscence of the holocaust with heart-rending narratives of victims and survivors? Primarily, that's what this book is. The Holocaust (I don't like to NOT capitalize it.)is arguably the most important story that could be told. (The only possible rivals in importance being the book of Genesis and the Passion of Jesus Christ.) It's setting is WWII, which continues to attract enormous enthusiastic audiences. The triumph of good over ultimate evil: the risk of a war that threatened to end civilization--what a yarn! Millions would want (did)to read it.

And just after you become worried about the future of truth, justice and the American way, Wouk lowers the boom on you. BAM! You are transported to the midst of the Holocaust. You see men of great personal presence forced to represent themselves as "filthy Jews". You struggle with them, first for simple survival, but then for hope and finally, dignity. You are overwhelmed by the monstrous evil that conceived of this plot told in graphic detail, and finally you are tormented by the individual fates of characters you've come to love and admire at the hands of the Wagnerian horde. At these moments, World War II is all but forgotten.

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Mfransayers

Rebuilding the universe

Reviewed in Canada on June 7, 2021

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This book was fascinating and helps to explain how so many countries in Europe and treaties were formed. So much of it is horrifying and had to be put aside before continuing. That one man could decide and almost succeed in destroying a nationality of human beings is hard to even imagine let a lone believe.we must learn never again to hate if we want to survive.

Nick Houghton

Brilliant but heart-breaking

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 6, 2023

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This is excellent history. I have learned so much about the war in Europe, about the war in the Pacific, and about the war as it affected the White House.. Most of all, the narrative about the Holocaust leaves me dumbstruck, appalled and heart-broken, and also curious how ordinary Germans and others who carried out Hitler’s Final Solution can become so depraved. But the novel is more than history: it is about the war’s effect on one family. The members of that family become real and you become involved with them and my over-riding feeling now at the end of this novel is one of sadness, a feeling of mourning that I must say goodbye to the Henrys and leave them behind in the 1940’s.

Empe

Seconda parte

Reviewed in Italy on June 10, 2022

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Dopo Venti di Guerra della corale storia di una famiglia di militari USA che tra amici, parenti e nemici si interseca attrverso i vari fronti della II Guerra Mondiale con sullo sfondo l'Olocausto. I meno giovani ricorderanno anche le due serie TV tratte da questi libri con Robert Mitchum come protagonista. I volumi originali vennero tradotti all'epoca e adesso sono di difficile reperibilità. Per chi li ha letti a suo tempo l'occasione per rileggerli in formato kindle (pure in offerta) L'Autore, noto soprattutto per l'Ammutinamento del Caine, ha scritto diversi volumi dedicati alla guerra, forte anche delle sue esperienze come ufficiale combattente della US Navy, tenendo anche conto delle sue origini ebraiche (vedi i due volumi dedicati alla nascita dello stato di Israele, pure disponibili in formato kindle).

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pediatric

Great

Reviewed in Germany on December 27, 2021

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In my opinion the best realfiction Book about WWII. The Broadway scope makes it so helpful to understand what happened.

bjpaul

Très bon achat

Reviewed in France on April 8, 2019

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