Recently my husband found a hardcover copy in our local Little Free Library. I first read this book sometime in the mid to late 1970s it was originally published in 1971. There are occasional interruptions in the family saga to report on the historical events, including examinations of each side’s military readiness and strategy. The soap opera drama of the family’s story pulls the reader through, but Wouk includes much history. And both Pug and Rhoda are questioning whether they want to continue their marriage, or find more suitable partners. Victor’s Jewish daughter-in-law remains trapped in Europe, having delayed her return to the US in deference to her aged (and improbably naïve) uncle. Both sons are naval officers serving in the Pacific, while daughter Madeline remains at her job in New York (and the subject of a scandal that will surely ruin her reputation). It ends just after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and the Henry family is facing not only a world war but considerable personal upheaval.
This is a larger than life story to tell, and Wouk could not manage to finish it in just one volume (even though this book is nearly 900 pages long in original hardcover). It’s 1937 and he’ll have a front-row seat to history. Victor wants a battleship, but he’s been selected to serve as Naval attache in Berlin. Philadelphia Inquirer 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 I.Book # 1 in the Henry Family saga introduces us to Commander Victor Henry, his wife Rhoda, and their children: Warren, Byron and Madeline.
World history comes to life at a personal, eyewitness level.
New York Times With the whole world as its setting, The Winds of War tells the intimate story of an American family - a Navy family - caught up in the vortex of world conflict. Political Science Quarterly First-rate storytelling. Fiction is better than history at showing 'how it really was' where matters of human character are concerned. The Winds of War gives more vivid pictures of the principal leaders of the war than military and political history could. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events - and all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War I - as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom. Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War I, which begins with The Winds of War and continues in War and Remembrance, stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. This Description may be from another edition of this product.
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