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...REMEMBRANCE by Herman Wouk...
...Caine Mutiny, the novel that won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1952, Herman Wouk created a character named Tom Keefer. Lieut. Keefer was an officer on the Caine, but his preoccupation was the great war novel he was writing: Multitudes, Multitudes. Now Wouk has written a novel that would have daunted even Keefer: World War II with the original cast. The author began his story with what he calls a "prologue," The Winds of War, an 885-page novel published in 1971. In that book the action was carried on the square shoulders of a Navy career officer named Victor...
Nobody really minds that Tolstoy put words in Napoleon's mouth long after the event; it is the use of this technique for contemporaries, or the recent dead, that raises problems. Now that Herman Wouk is converting his bestseller The Winds of War into a television series, he was asked by Daniel Schorr about the propriety of giving to actors impersonating Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin words that the real figures never uttered. "You have touched a very live nerve," Wouk replied. "I don't know if anyone has the answer." But some try to answer: one successful scriptwriter...
Miniseries Thanks to Roots, the networks are rushing through bestsellers faster than an Evelyn Wood graduate. In addition to Washington: Behind Closed Doors, ABC will crank out mini-series based on Gail Sheehy's Passages and Herman Wouk's The Winds of War. Roots II will follow Kunta Kinte's descendants into modern times...
Travanan (7) 10-The Winds of War, Wouk...