Word: tassafaronga
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place against explicit historical back drops. The novel's involvement with the complicated struggle to build an atomic bomb includes a conversation on pioneer nuclear physics that is a masterpiece of layman's clarity. The Navy's little-remembered but terrible defeat at the Battle of Tassafaronga is described more vividly by Wouk than by the late naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison...
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