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...Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk. The saga of a minesweeper with a misfit skipper and level-headed juniors: high-grade realism in a story of World War II (TIME, April...
...Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk. The saga of a minesweeper with a misfit skipper and level-headed juniors; high-grade realism in a story of World War II (TIME, April...
...Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk. The saga of a minesweeper with a misfit skipper and level-headed juniors; high-grade realism in a story of World War II (TIME, April...
...Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk. The saga of a minesweeper with a misfit skipper and level-headed juniors; high-grade realism in a story of World War II (TIME, April...
...Wouk himself spent four years in the Navy, part of the time as executive officer of the destroyer-minesweeper Southard. His aboard-ship scenes have a sharp, detailed reality that few of the army novelists have been able to give to their battlefield passages. No prude, he manages to achieve realism without obscenity, is perhaps the first World War II novelist in the U.S. with enough maturity to realize that four-letter words are "good-humored billingsgate . . . and not significant." That Author Wouk has absolute control of the Caine's little world will be granted by anyone...