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. © 2023 Library Ideas (Ljudbok): 9798885191531A 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).

A book for history buffs and fiction fans alike, this remarkable thriller presents a fully-realized, flesh-and-blood Hitler that is more realistic and more chilling than any we’ve seen before. Interacting with real people, places, and events during a fifteen-year time frame, Friedrich watches Hitler evolve step-by-step into a megalomaniacal dictator. Unable to see or care for himself, the future Führer relies upon Friedrich for assistance, and the two men form an unbreakable bond.Īs Wolf progresses, Friedrich becomes history’s eyes and ears. Wolf, is an army corporal suffering from hysterical blindness. The story begins as World War I is ending, when the fictional character Friedrich Richard meets Hitler in the mental ward of Germany’s Pasewalk Hospital. Based on extensive research, the historical novel Wolf lifts the curtain on Hitler’s secret life, revealing truths that have been hidden for one hundred years. Yet questions remain about how this seemingly unremarkable man gained power to become one of the most diabolical dictators of all time. Perhaps no one is more controversial or more hated than Adolf Hitler. but Will Soon Become the Ultimate One: Adolf Hitler. In the Great Tradition of Herman Wouk, Author of Winds of Warand War and Remembrance, Wolf is a Thoroughly Researched Historical Novel about a Man who is Not Yet a Monster.

The winds of war by herman wouk