Absent-Minded Professor: Aaron Jastrow.Not to be confused with the Web Comic The War of Winds.

It has been called a World War II version of War and Peace and both volumes were adapted into TV miniseries in the '80s. All the fictional characters regularly meet up with real historical figures from the war, intertwining fiction with fact. In effect, the novels comprise a 'sight-seeing' tour, in which we are shown the war from as many perspectives as the author can manage, including excerpts from a pro-German history of the war by a fictional German general, Armin Von Roon. Navy family) and the Jastrows (a Jewish family) and their friends around the world during the war, with The Winds of War covering the period from the late 1930s up through the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and War and Remembrance covering the rest of the war. Both novels follow two American families, the Henrys (a U.S. Butterworth IV, 2006 HCDJ Sale! $3.00 $1.A historical epic of World War II written by Herman Wouk ( The Caine Mutiny) and published in two volumes, The Winds of War (1971) and War and Remembrance (1978). The more you buy, the cheaper postage is per item! Related products If you don’t like the price, make an offer!Ĭheck out my other action/military books. If you’d like more information about or photos of The Winds of War, please feel free to contact me. The second item may travel for free or just a few cents more - so it’s worth taking a look at my other items before you complete your order. I am delighted to combine postage and insurance costs if you purchase more than one item. Insurance is an additional cost as described. See the shipping page for the cost to send a two-pound Media Mail package. Unless you request otherwise, I will wrap the book in plastic wrap to help protect it from the elements, create a custom-made cardboard box to ship it in, and send via Media Mail with Delivery Confirmation tracking.

Generally sent the same day payment arrives. The spine has reading creases and curve, and there is currently an edge dent from the back which may flatten out before this ships. In good condition for age with handling/storage on cover and pages toning from age but in very good condition. This paperback book measures about 7″ x 4-1/8″ and has 1047 pages.

From the 12th printing of unknown date after the first in 1973 by Pocket Books. And ordinary people like the Henrys, an American naval family whose quiet heroism left its unforgettable mark on their times. Days of Hitler, Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt - men who moved the world. Herman Wouk takes us behind the scenes of those great and terrible days. Nations were crushed beneath the awesome force of a conflict that shook the very foundations of civilization. The winds of war engulfed the world in the most dramatic years of the twentieth century.

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