The Winds of War
ISBN:
9780606125772 (0606125779)
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Classics,
Novels,
History,
Literature,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Historical Fiction,
War,
Military,
World War II
Series: The Henry Family (#1)
4.23668924
When I started this, I planned on reading it this year then waiting a couple years and reading War and Remembrance. Instead, I just bought the second book and I'm starting it immediately. Wouk is a great storyteller. He has an amazing grasp on WWII and is easy to read and understand. His characters ...
If a person should somehow not know anything about America's path to involvement in World War II, there are much worse ways to learn about it than by reading this epic historical novel. Winds is completely successful at capturing, though the Henry family and its closest friends, the gradual envelopi...
On first glance, The Winds of War is an overwhelming book. At 885 pages / 365,879 words and taking place between March 1939 and December 1941, it's both dense in size and in scope. As a comparison, George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones is 835 pages / 292,727 words. And yet, I read it in three da...
Hattip TA - Year of publication 1970
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