War and Remembrance | Herman Wouk | Winds of War/War & Remembrance Great Reads

War and Remembrance | Herman Wouk | War & Remembrance hard cover

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War and Remembrance

	War and Remembrance Herman Wouk Back Bay Books, 2002 - 1056 pages average customer review:based on 62 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

These two classic works capture the tide of world events even as they unfold the compelling tale of a single North American family drawn into the very center of the wars maelstrom. These two multimillion-copy bestsellers capture all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of the Second World War.

Winds of War/War & Remembrance Great Reads

WWII was called "The Last Just War". This book in fiction form deals with most of the questions that were with the people in this war. Isolationism, Jewish Question, failure to take initiative by leaders/govts are dealt with and presented. While this is all historical fiction, it still rings true.
I am going on my second reading. This is a strange thing for me to do. I look at some of the ideas as they are still playing out in our lives today. It puts a glaring light on how governments will promise things and then forget the promise. Just look at the mess in the Middle/Near East. It is the product of decisions made from 1933 on.
There is more to this book than it may first appear.

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War & Remembrance hard cover

The book arrived as described and in great condition. I am very pleased to add this to my bookshelf.

The Best Book You Will Read On Any Subject

I just finished this novel and I have felt a bit lost the last couple days. How can I possibly follow up a book of this magnitude with something else? Nothing compares. As for Wouk's own words that it stands on it's own and you don't have to have read Winds of War - don't listen to him; read Winds of War. You will not regret it.

Wouk has created one of the most memorable cast of characters in a most memorable period time and he brings it all to life with complete credibility. As it is with war no one is safe and that goes for this book. The characters are actually vulnerable, the can and will die unexpectantly and leave you in shock at their lost - just like in war.

I did feel like it was a bit rushed in the end. Some of the biggest events of the war and some of the biggest events in the characters lives were brushed over very quickly. I would have liked to have read more about Iwo Jima, the bombing of Dresden and Toyoko, the actions taken by the Germans to cover their tracks and get rid of the surviving Jews in their camps and I especially wish he would have gone into more detail about one characters experiences while in a German camp.

That is my only complaint.

Read this book. It doesn't matter how young you are. It was the worlds biggest catastrophe, a war that encompassed the whole earth. That will never happen again and it is so important for people to read the history of WWII and understand its causes, understand Hitler and how he gained control over his people and most importantly understand the consequences of the Holocaust.

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My favorite book

I'm an avid reader, and don't need to add to the well-written reviews of "Winds of War" & "War and Remembrance".

All I will say is that I've read both books every few years - all told 6 times I think. I love them both, and will pull them out in a few more years and give them a go again.

You can not go wrong with these 2 books. Read them in order. You will be drawn in; I sure have been.

1,382 pages worth of continuing monumental saga!

Followup to The Winds of War. As the paperback cover blurb states, "the monumental saga continues": 1,382 pages worth of continuing monumental saga! Its good, no doubt, very good even, but it takes a great effort nearly as intense as the war itself to work through.

One of the things I find interesting about this book is that if written today, this book and its companion in the hands of a lesser author would probably end up as just another in the spate of serialized, romanticized historical fiction. Wouk's classics read more like intensely researched and well-written narrative history.

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