by Herman Wouk · Grijalbo Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788425315183
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«Vientos de guerra» is the war novel by Herman Wouk, published by Grijalbo Mondadori in paperback (963 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows the Henry family and their circle from the advance of Hitler's Germany in 1939 to the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, with scenes in London, Berlin, Paris, Lisbon and Moscow. The narrative combines war action with the lives of its protagonists and portrays the end of an era.
This edition is from 1984 and uses the translation by María Antonia Menini. The work was adapted for television in a series directed by Dan Curtis with Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw and Polly Bergen.
For readers of historical fiction and war stories set in the Second World War.
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.
