War and Remembrance
Pulitzer Prize-winner Wouk's classic, bestselling epic of an American family during World War II. "The reader is going to be caught up in the excitement and sheer kinetic force of this powerful story . . . relive a period of history . . . and come away richer for the memories."--James A....
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Wouk's classic, bestselling epic of an American family during World War II. "The reader is going to be caught up in the excitement and sheer kinetic force of this powerful story . . . relive a period of history . . . and come away richer for the memories."--James A. Michener. A miniseries based on this book was an ABC Television Event of the Century. Reissue.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780316954990 (0316954993)
Publish date: February 5th 2002
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Pages no: 1056
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
History,
Literature,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
War,
Military,
Jewish,
World War II,
Holocaust
Series: The Henry Family (#2)
Intensely involving and heartbreaking. As in the first book in this series, the main characters do seem to be at the center of each important moment of the war, but one forgives Wouk this transparent plot device fairly early on. I learned a lot from this book and didn't find myself skipping battles ...