his wife Rhoda), good and considered man, restricts himself to the comment "I don't admire their treatment of the Jews" when he is Naval Attache in Berlin. His Commander Henry, however, a too hard working (cf. who calls our hero, Naval Commander Victor Henry, by his sobriquet Pug and will be heard saying "Good night, old top." In the beginning Wouk almost seems to be competing with Shirer - following not only Hitler's rise to power but explicating its mystique back to the Huns' earlier destruction of Imperial Rome via Hegel and Heine and one character here. Butterworth IV, 2006 HCDJ Sale! $3.00 $1.This endlessly effluent, Woukmanlike novel which runs to almost 900 pages deals with a typical American family before World War II and up to Pearl Harbor and it is conveniently mapped from Washington to Berlin to Warsaw (the siege) and London (the blitz) and Moscow and Rome and points elsewhere. The more you buy, the cheaper postage is per item! Related products If you don’t like the price, make an offer!Ĭheck out my other action/military books. If you’d like more information about or photos of The Winds of War, please feel free to contact me. The second item may travel for free or just a few cents more - so it’s worth taking a look at my other items before you complete your order. I am delighted to combine postage and insurance costs if you purchase more than one item. Insurance is an additional cost as described. See the shipping page for the cost to send a two-pound Media Mail package. Unless you request otherwise, I will wrap the book in plastic wrap to help protect it from the elements, create a custom-made cardboard box to ship it in, and send via Media Mail with Delivery Confirmation tracking. Generally sent the same day payment arrives. The spine has reading creases and curve, and there is currently an edge dent from the back which may flatten out before this ships. In good condition for age with handling/storage on cover and pages toning from age but in very good condition. This paperback book measures about 7″ x 4-1/8″ and has 1047 pages.
From the 12th printing of unknown date after the first in 1973 by Pocket Books. And ordinary people like the Henrys, an American naval family whose quiet heroism left its unforgettable mark on their times. Days of Hitler, Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt - men who moved the world. Herman Wouk takes us behind the scenes of those great and terrible days.
Nations were crushed beneath the awesome force of a conflict that shook the very foundations of civilization. The winds of war engulfed the world in the most dramatic years of the twentieth century.
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