num_pages: 1047
description: Herman Wouk’s sweeping epic of World War II, 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. 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 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 gives more vivid pictures of the principal leaders of the war than military and political history could. Fiction is better than history at showing ‘how it really was’ where matters of human character are concerned.” — Political Science Quarterly “First-rate storytelling.” — 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. . . . World history comes to life at a personal, eyewitness level.” — 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 II.” — San Francisco Chronicle
language: English
title: The Winds of War
titlecomplete: The Winds of War
characters: Winston Churchill, Natalie Jastrow, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Rhoda Henry, Aaron Jastrow, Victor Henry, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Byron Henry, Warren Henry, Hermann Göring, Benito Mussolini, Pamela Tudsbury
genres: Audiobook, Historical, Historical Fiction, Novels, Literature, Military Fiction, Classics, War, Fiction, World War II
ratings_count: 56352
places: Germany, Berlin, Washington, D.C., Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Atlantic Ocean, Italy, Hawaii, Siena, Tuscany, Manila
series: The Henry Family
publisher: Pocket