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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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"Compelling...A panoramic, engrossing story."―Atlantic Monthly

"First-rate storytelling."―New York Times

"Wouk is a matchless storyteller with a gift for characterization, an ear for convincing dialogue, and a masterful grasp of what was at stake in World War II."―San Francisco Chronicle

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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 ‏ : ‎ 896 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316952664
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316952668
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 930L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.74 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.75 x 8.25 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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My Favorite Herman Wouk Novel Thus Far

Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2023

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“Winds of War” is an excellent huge sprawling novel about an American Family as World War II approaches. The principal protagonist is a middle aged American Naval Captain. The story is constructed around him and his family. The novel touches upon every major theater of World War II. It is very lengthy. My hard back copy was 888 pages. I completely enjoyed every aspect of this historical fiction. I particularly liked the author’s development of characters. I could relate to the characters and cared about them.

I have been reading Herman Wouk novels in chronological order. This is easily my favorite. I wish to emphasize some of his other novels have been quite good, although seemingly now somewhat forgotten.
Obviously reading novels is a matter of taste. But I quite liked “City Boy” and “Marjorie Morningstar”. “The Caine Mutiny” was very good and I feel was buttressed by the author’s own service in the United States Navy. As good as these novels were, I feel they are eclipsed by this epic novel.

I purchased an audiobook, a kindle, as well as a hard backpack copy of this work. They were all consistent. I felt the audiobook was excellent. The narrator was Kevin Pariseau, He did a very professional job. I took my time, reading and listening, rereading and relistening to various parts. Everything was very well done and very professional. Speaking for myself, I enjoy carefreading depictions of scenery both before and listening to an audiobook version. I get more out of that by actually reading it. At the same time, some of the action is more dramatic when I listen to it when performed by an excellent narrator.

In summary I thoroughly enjoyed this entire experience. It took a lung time. I read other works along the way, I am ready for a break from Herman Wouk. This is normal for me, in several months I fully intend to read 5he sequel to this work, “War and Remembrance”. Thank You for taking the time to read this review.

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Kenneth C. Mahieu

Great story, hours and hours of enjoyment ahead

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“Winds of War” (WW) is a Big Book, literally and figuratively. Published in 1971 and written by Herman Wouk, it registers 886 pages on my Kindle, and considerably more depending on which printed version you might pick up, so the equivalent of up to three novels. But there’s more! Wouk saw WW as a prologue to the follow-up “War and Remembrance” (WR) which Amazon lists at 1396 pages. The story begins with the invasion of Poland in September, 1939, and concludes with the bombing of Hiroshima; the breakpoint for the two volumes is at the attack on Pearl Harbor. But wait, there’s more…. In February, 1983, ABC-TV presented a big budget WW series, shown on eight consecutive nights and totaling fourteen hours and forty minutes (there was a similar series of WR five years later). The two series were masterpieces, and won a number of awards and in my humble opinion, were a critically successful forerunner for the hundreds of series available on TV today. When I decided to “re-read” WW after all these years, it was partly triggered by the recent passing of Wouk ten days before his 104th birthday, and partly recollection of fond memories reading the books and watching the series more than thirty years ago. As I was about halfway through WW, it dawned on me that I had never read it before. Rather my introduction to WW/WR had been watching the WW series, then reading WR to see how the whole story played out, and finally watching the WR TV series.

The books have a huge cast of characters but focus on one Navy family, that of Victor “Pug” Henry. Pug is a Naval Attache steaming across the Atlantic with wife Rhoda to his new assignment in Berlin. Pug is a bit short, a former Navy Academy football player, a tough to bring down halfback, bulldoggish in many ways, hence “Pug”. The Henrys have three kids – Warren a Navy flyer, a soon to be submarine officer Byron, aka Briny (I think of him as Whiney), and Madeleine who has completed one year of college and is ready to tackle New York City doing what she does not know. On the ship the Henrys meet and befriend a Brit journalist, Talky Tudsbury and his 28 year old daughter Pamela.

Over the next 860 pages, there are chapters following the lives of these main characters. Many of the chapters are very interesting, depicting critical WWll events along with little known bits of historical fact. There are action scenes, and there are romantic scenes. Some characters are a lot more interesting than others. To break up the monotony, Wouk occasionally introduces historical characters who interface with members of the Henry family on occasion. For example, early on in his new assignment, Pug speculates on the possibility of a German-Russian Pact, and when it comes to be he is invited to fly back to DC and meet with FDR in person to share other insights. Some chapters are not so great – early on Briny develops a relationship with Natalie, a Jewish woman, niece of a famous author. As time passes she and uncle find it impossible to escape from Italy despite many, many pages describing their attempts to get immigration paperwork in order. But the great chapters, especially the Pug-Pamela ones, far outnumber the not so great ones and hence my rating for WW is 4 ½ stars.

I have a yellowed copy of WR and Wouk has written some interesting comments about his two books. He saw WW as a prologue, and that it need not be read before reading WR. He says WR is “the main tale I had to tell”. He describes the books as romance (but not as a love story). I strongly recommend reading both – I will re-read WR next year since I’m not crazy about reading 1000+ page books back to back.

There are two additional points I would like to make to enhance your reading of these books, possibly. The first has to do with the television production, specifically the cast. Pug Henry is played by Robert Mitchum. I recall to this day that there was a lot of criticism about this choice, mainly concerning Mitchum’s age. And perhaps rightly so. Many scenes worked anyway, but not all of them. And I make that comment noting that WR is released five years later. But Mitchum’s height certainly played much better than Wouk’s descriptions. As I read through WW, I watched a number of scenes of the 1983 TV presentation, courtesy of YouTube, and I strongly suggest you consider doing the same. It was much nicer watching Victoria Tennant as Pamela instead of conjuring up my own image. But there are drawbacks. When anyone mentions FDR these days, I get a mental picture of Ralph Bellamy ! Secondly, the TV series was produced in the days of video tape, long before digital. DVDs did subsequently come out but there are few “new” ones available and the prices are outrageous since there is very limited supply. Buyer beware – too often in situations like this quality is less than expected and/or the product may not include the entire telecast!

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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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Tracy DeVault

Great story

Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2023

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I bought this audio book as a companion to the movie (DVD). As you might expect, there is a lot of story in the book that was not incorporated into the movie. My only problem with the book version of the story is that the author wants to include a lot of information about the war and the plight of the Jews that is not directly related to the story. Consuming all this additional information really takes away from the flow of the story. In the end I'm glad he included the extra information on the Jews. While I'm very interested in World War II, I would rather get that information from a book on the history of the war.

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LLS

Fantastic book if you've ever wanter to see the events that drew us into WWII

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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S. Begley

A true classic

Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2023

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This book should be read by everyone who is interested in books about WWII. Well written and will stay with you long after you have finished reading it. I read this book years ago and wanted to read it again. I wasn't disappointed, even better on the second read.

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Pierre E. Hervieux

An easy and painless way to learn about WWII

Reviewed in Canada on January 16, 2022

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Almost everything important you need to know about that war. It is of course heavily centered on the massacre of the jews (given the author) but other events are well described. It is a novel (and with War & Remembrance) a lengthy one, not a history book. Nevertheless the facts are true.

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BigAl

A tour de force

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 31, 2023

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Another epic book that I picked up on Jack Carr’s recommendation…..

It was superb, wonderful sub stories providing a backdrop to the build up and commencement of WW2……

Empe

Poderosa prima parte

Reviewed in Italy on December 8, 2021

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Di una storia corale sulla II Guerra Mondiale vista essenzialmente nell'ottica di una famiglia USA di marinai, cui via via si aggiungono altri personaggi le cui storie personali e relativi destini si interlacciano tra di loro.
Per chi avesse letto a suo tempo la traduzione italiana o avesse guardato le vecchie serie TV dedicate ai due libri (questo e il seguito "Guerra e ricordo" nell'edizione italiana) l'occasione di leggere l'originale in formato kindle (e pure in offerta)

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Novela épica

Reviewed in Mexico on June 26, 2020

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Es una novela que representa el drama familiar de una familia norteamericana con miembros militares durante los preámbulos e inicio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial A mi me gusto, porque esta bien escrita.

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Sherlock99

Stunning

Reviewed in France on June 10, 2019

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I have just re-read the book and he keeps you on it's thrall all the way through. As soon as I finished I bought the second part. The print on the paper versions I had at home was too small and on the kindle great

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