The Winds of War
Title | The Winds of War PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Wouk |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Pages | 1071 |
Release | 2013-12-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1444779273 |
Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II, which begins with THE WINDS OF WAR and continues in WAR AND REMEMBRANCE, stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events - the drama, the romance, the heroism and the tragedy of World War II - as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very centre of the maelstrom. "First-rate storytelling." - New York Times "Compelling . . . A panoramic, engrossing story." - Atlantic Monthly "The depth of the detail Wouk brought to bear on his subjects was impressive" - Financial Times "Wouk is a matchless storyteller with a gift for characterization, an ear for convincing dialogue, and a masterful grasp of what was at stake in World War II." - San Francisco Chronicle
War and Remembrance
Title | War and Remembrance PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Wouk |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1382 |
Release | 1983-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780671463144 |
This is a historical romance. The subject is World War II, the viewpoint American.
The Winds of Heaven
Title | The Winds of Heaven PDF eBook |
Author | Monica Dickens |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Winds of Freedom
Title | Winds of Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret T. Bixler |
Publisher | Noble House Publishers |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9781881907008 |
Published by Two Bytes Publishing Co., 219 Long Neck Pt. Road, Darien, CT 06820. An account of the creation of the vocabulary and the training of Navajos to send messages in code. The code was used through the Pacific Campaign and never broken. Includes the code. Wretched binding. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
A Hole in Texas
Title | A Hole in Texas PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Wouk |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2004-04-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0759510660 |
With this rollicking novel hailed equally for its satiric bite, its lightly borne scientific savvy, and its tender compassion for foible-prone humanity, one of America's preeminent storytellers returns to fiction. Guy Carpenter is a regular guy, a family man, an obscure NASA scientist, when he is jolted out of his quiet life and summoned to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. Through a turn of events as unlikely as it is inevitable, Guy finds himself compromised by scandal and romance, hounded by Hollywood, and agonizingly alone at the white-hot center of a firestorm ignited as three potent forces of American culture -- politics, big science, and the media -- spectacularly collide.
Braving Home
Title | Braving Home PDF eBook |
Author | Jake Halpern |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2015-02-10 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 0544635388 |
A journalist visits five of America’s disaster-zone towns and the devoted residents who chose to stay despite hellish conditions. As a young reporter, Jake Halpern became obsessed with stories about "some outlandish and often hellish place inhabited by a handful of stalwarts who refused to leave." His fellow reporters joked with him and nicknamed him the Bad Homes Correspondent. But the more he learned about these people, the more he was drawn to them. Braving Home is Halpern’s irresistible portrait of these hometowns and his friendships with their most loyal residents. In North Carolina, Halpern meets a retired mill worker who single-handedly manned his hometown in the wake of a devastating flood. In Alaska, he visits a lone snowbound high-rise at the foot of a glacier. At the base of a Hawaiian volcano, he stays with a hermit whose house was surrounded by molten lava. Among the glitterati of Malibu, a longtime "hillbilly" teaches him the traditions of firefighting. And on a barrier island off the coast of Louisiana, a legendary storm rider tells of surviving hurricanes—even if it means tying one's hair to a tree. Throughout his journey, Halpern explores the value of rootedness in an age when American society is more mobile than ever.
The Glory
Title | The Glory PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Wouk |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 699 |
Release | 2024-06-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1504096568 |
New York Times Bestseller: “A sprawling action-packed novel” of Israel by the author of The Hope (The Philadelphia Inquirer). This follow-up to The Hope plunges immediately into the violence and upheaval of the Six-Day War of 1967 and continues the stories of its multiple characters and of Israel’s dramatic struggle for survival across the years. The Glory takes readers through the terrors of the Yom Kippur War, the famous Entebbe operation, and the airstrikes on Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor—and ending with a final hope for peace. Illuminating the inner lives of real Israeli leaders—including David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan, and Ariel Sharon—the Pulitzer Prize–winning “master of the historical novel” tells the chronicle of Israel’s fight to exist with a compelling sense of both the broad significance of this time in history and its personal impact on those who lived through it (Los Angeles Times). “A genuinely enjoyable read.” —The Detroit News “A top-notch storyteller.” —Time