Pug is a man on his way up to flag rank, but in 1939 he’s merely a commander. A “battleship man,” wedded to the glorious history of the ironclad behemoths that ruled the seas for half a century.
A graduate of Annapolis, where he starred on the football team.
These classic World War II novels remain a compelling read fifty years after their publication. And it’s followed by another 1,400 pages in a companion volume spanning the remaining years of the war. In two volumes totaling 2,300 pages, Wouk follows US Navy Captain Victor Henry, his wife, his two sons, the women they marry, his young daughter, and a handful of other characters as they are tossed about by “the winds of war.” The 900-page story by that name encompasses the years 1939 through 1941. Yet half a century ago a remarkable author named Herman Wouk set out to do exactly that for American readers. After all, the war engaged more than 100 million people from 30 countries in a conflict that raged for years on three continents. Imagine trying to tell the story of World War II through the lives of a single family.
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