The Henry Family #1

The Winds of War is Herman Wouk’s second book about World War II. Published in 1971, The Winds of War was followed up seven years later by War and Remembrance https://curiositycove.co.za/shop/war-and-remembrance-herman-woukthe-henry-family-2/

Condition:  The jacket is a little shelf rubbed, but remains intact. The boards are a little shelf rubbed, but remains strong and protected by the jacket. Internally, there is a previous owners signature on the front end page, the remaining pages are clean and complete. Tightly bound.

22×14.5x5cm, 806 Pages

ISBN-10: 0002219417

Author: Herman Wouk

Edition: 1st British Edition

Binding: Hardcover

Publisher: Collins

Published: 1971

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 is a deeply human story of the vicissitudes of two American families caught in the war’s vortex, one Regular Navy, the other Jewish intellectual, and a British war correspondent and his daughter.

Beginning with the off-stage thunder of Hitler’s Germany in 1938, the action is concentrated on four pivotal battles: the siege of Warsaw, the Battle of Britain, the march on Moscow, and the attack on Pearl Harbour.

Enriched by brillant evocation of the prevailing atmosphere and conditions, and fresh and lively portraits of war leaders, notably Hitler and Roosevelt, this magnificent novel produces in the reader, through the constant participation of one or more of the main characters in events, an eye-witness’s tingling consciousness of having been there——of this is how it was.

The Winds of War and its sequel War and Remembrance stand as the crowning achievement of one of America’s most celebrated storytellers.