The evil in human hearts knows no boundary, except the deeper, stronger human will to freedom, order, and justice. That eternal benchmark of barbarism, let us remember, was set not by a Third World country, not by Orientals, not by the Muslims, but by the Germans, an advanced European nation. In the last global war, before VE day and VJ day came, there befell the collapse of France, the Bataan death march, the fall of Singapore, the siege of Stalingrad, bloody Tarawa, and bloodier Guadalcanal and at the hidden heart of that global war, concealed by the smoke of battle, there burned the Holocaust. Both books tell one overarching story-how the American people rose to the challenges of World War II, the first global war, after fearsome setbacks forgotten today in the shining memory of final victory.Īs I write these words late in October 2001, a new war is just beginning, global again in scope but totally different in character. Little, Brown and Company, the publisher of The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, has requested a special author's introduction to this new edition of the novels in a changed format. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at Thank you for your support of the author's rights. Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the publisher constitute unlawful piracy and theft of the author's intellectual property. 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 I.In accordance with the U.S.

World history comes to life at a personal, eyewitness level.

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. Political Science Quarterly First-rate storytelling. Fiction is better than history at showing 'how it really was' where matters of human character are concerned. The Winds of War gives more vivid pictures of the principal leaders of the war than military and political history could. 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 I - as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom. Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War I, 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. This Description may be from another edition of this product.

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