War and Remembrance
Read War and Remembrance Online
Authors: Herman Wouk
Tags: #Fiction, #General, #Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), #General & Literary Fiction, #Fiction - General, #World War; 1939-1945, #Literature: Classics, #Classics, #Classic Fiction, #Literature: Texts
Author of
The Winds of War
and
War and Remembrance
“Wouk’s real genius lies not just in the narrative power of his books, but in his empathy with the people and the times of which he writes…. The genius of
The Winds of War
and
War and Remembrance
is that they not only tell the story of the Holocaust, but tell it within the context of World War II, without which there is no understanding it.”
— Ken Ringle,
Washington Post
“Herman Wouk is an American legend”
— Gerald F. Kreyche,
USA Today
“The whole two-volume work constitutes a very good popular history of the Second World War and the Holocaust…. The quality of the military reasoning in this document is impressive, and so is Wouk’s scholarship in contemporary history…. As a historian of naval warfare Wouk is as good as Samuel Eliot Morison, while as an analytic narrator of land battles, particularly Soviet here, he invites comparison with someone like B. H. Liddell Hart… When he turns from people to significant public environments and ’things Wouk is also wonderful…. He does even the inside of the cattle cars superbly: give him an environment of any kind — the Kremlin, Hitler’s Wolfsschanze in the East Prussian forest, the president’s private quarters in the White House, a gas chamber posing as a mass showerbath, the flagplot room on a battleship, an atomic pile, the interior of a submarine or a bomber — and he renders it persuasively. There’s hardly a contemporary writer so good at depicting locales authentically, places as varied as Honolulu, Bern, Lisbon, Leningrad, Columbia University, and London. They are perfect.”
— Paul Fussell,
New Republic
“Herman Wouk has the touch… the ability to tell a story that grips you from beginning to end.”
— Donna Levin,
San Francisco Chronicle
Novels
AURORA DAWN
CITY BOY
THE CAINE MUTINY
MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR
YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE
DONT STOP THE CARNIVAL
THE WINDS OF WAR
WAR AND REMEMBRANCE
INSIDE, OUTSIDE
THE HOPE
THE GLORY
Plays
THE TRAITOR
THE CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL
NATURE’S WAY
Nonfiction
THIS IS MY GOD
THE WILL TO LIVE ON
COPYRIGHT © 1978 BY HERMAN WOUK
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. EXCEPT AS PERMITTED UNDER THE U.S. COPYRIGHT ACT OF 1976, NO PART OF THIS PUBLICATION MAY BE REPRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED, OR TRANSMITTED IN ANY FORM OR BY ANY MEANS, OR STORED IN A DATABASE OR RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE PUBLISHER
Little, Brown and Company
Hachette Book Group
237 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Visit our website at
www.HachetteBookGroup.com
Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown, October 1978
First eBook Edition: January 2010
Back Bay Books is an imprint of Little, Brown and Company. The Back
Bay Books name and logo are trademarks of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The author is grateful to the following publishers for permission to reprint excerpts from selected material as noted below: Chappell Music Company for “Hut-Sut Song” by Leo V. Killion, Ted McMichael, and Jack Owens. Copyright 1941 by Schumann Music Co. Copyright renewed, assigned to Unichappell Music, Inc. (Belinda Music, publisher). International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Used by permission; Edward B. Marks Music Corporation and Chappell Music Company for “Lili Marlene” by Norbert Schultze. All rights for the United States copyright © by Edward B. Marks Music Corporation. Used by permission. All rights for Canada copyright © by Chappell Music Co., Inc. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Used by permission. All rights for the Philippines reproduced by permission of EMI Music Publishing Ltd. 138-140 Charing Cross Road, London WC2N OLD; Southern Music Publishing Company, Inc. for “Der Fuehrer’s Face” by Oliver Wallace. Copyright 1942 by Southern Music Publishing Company, Inc. Copyright renewed. Used by permission; United Artists Music Publishing Group, Inc. and West’s Ltd. for “Three O’Clock in the Morning” by Dorothy Terriss and Julian Robledo. Copyright 1921, 1922, renewed 1949, 1950 by West’s Ltd. All rights for North America administered by Leo Feist, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission. All rights for the Philippines administered by West’s Ltd. 138-140 Charing Cross Road, London WC2N OLD.
ISBN: 978-0-316-09776-5
In Remembrance
Abraham Isaac Wouk
“Abe”
firstborn son of
Betty Sarah and Herman Wouk
September 2, 1946-July 27, 1951
He will destroy death forever.
Isaiah 25
WRITE THIS FOR A REMEMBRANCE IN A BOOK… THAT THE LORD HAS A WAR WITH AMALEK FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION.
Exodus 17
Contents
Little, Brown and Company, the publisher of
The Winds of War
and
War and Remembrance,
has requested a special author’s introduction to this new edition of the novels in a changed format. The two books tell one overarching story — how the American people rose to the challenges of World War II, the first global war, after fearsome setbacks forgotten today in the shining memory of final victory.
As I write these words late in October 2001, a new war is just beginning, global again in scope but totally different in character. In the last global war, before VE day and VJ day came, there befell the collapse of France, the Bataan death march, the fall of Singapore, the siege of Stalingrad, bloody Tarawa, and bloodier Guadalcanal; and at the hidden heart of that global war, concealed by the smoke of battle, there burned the Holocaust. That eternal benchmark of barbarism, let us remember, was set not by a Third World country, not by Orientals, not by the Muslims, but by the Germans, an advanced European nation. The evil in human hearts knows no boundary, except the deeper, stronger human will to freedom, order, and justice. In the very long run, that will so far has prevailed.