by Herman Wouk · Fontana Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006166498
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«The Winds of War» is the historical novel by Herman Wouk, published by Fontana Press in paperback (960 pages, in English).
The novel follows the members of the Henry family as they become caught up in the events preceding the United States' entry into World War II. Wouk combines personal drama with military and political history, portraying the rise of the Nazi threat and a world on the brink of conflict.
It is the first instalment of the «The Henry Family» saga; the sequel is «War and Remembrance». It was originally published in 1971.
For readers of historical and war fiction, and for those seeking a classic of World War II narrative.
Herman Wouk was an American author. He published 15 novels, many of them historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1952. Other well-known works included The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, the bildungsroman Marjorie Morningstar; and non-fiction such as This Is My God, an explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective, written for Jewish and non-Jewish readers. His books have been translated into 27 languages.
