The Winds of War: Library Edition

from jonwwil

I am in absolute awe of this book. It (along with its companion novel, War and Remembrance) is quite possibly the finest work of literature I've come across. This book covers the period of time leading up to the U.S. entry into WWII, from just before Germany's invasion of Poland up through the Ja...

from BookConcierge

Book # 1 in the Henry Family saga introduces us to Commander Victor Henry, his wife Rhoda, and their children: Warren, Byron and Madeline. Victor wants a battleship, but he's been selected to serve as Naval attache in Berlin. It's 1937 and he'll have a front-row seat to history. This is a large...

from markbstephenson

Excellent! I read War and Remembrance first and was surprised by how much it educated and entertained, so I read this and liked it even better because of the delectable humour and romance which abounds and makes these tragic years come to vivid life.

from loralu

Wouk creatively combines fiction and nonfiction into a breathtaking story of the love, relationships, struggles, and challenges of a US Navy family during WWII. By combining the fictional story of the family and the nonfiction of a German Admiral's diary, as well as other factual events from the ...

from TerriBooks

One of my favorite books ever, I decided to make this a part of my ebook library. So it, of course, deserved a new reading. While it is unrealistic to think that a single naval officer would have actually been so serendipitously involved in the major historic events leading up to the US involveme...