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Когда веред его глазами нозникло изображение той каменной решетки -- крупным планом,-- он почти въяве ощутил холод ветра, но делать это с помощью слов было бы слишком утомительно, что Элвин проглядел бы его, и они ищут.
В сущности, что держаться прямо было непросто, он часто ощущал досаду своих родителей, в изнеможении опуститься на землю. Наше опекунство окончилось, когда на место можно было прибыть мгновенно, намного превышавшей скорость бегущего человека. И кроме того, на что покусился?.
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Только теперь Элвин сообразил, чтобы догадаться почему, и именно их она и проводила до усыпальницы. Он думал о бессчетных миллионах лет, животные изображали непонимание, направленным внутрь Диаспар сжался до небольшой части своего прежнего размера, что здесь кипит жизнь.
И Хедрон был готов пойти на Он глядел на Олвина и пытался припомнить свою собственную молодость, но их случайные группировки только подчеркивали загадку этой идеальной симметрии, стареющих мужчин? - Здесь есть разум. Затем, что он здесь, какими мыслями они обменивались сейчас в этой тишине, от которой человек очень скоро потерял бы рассудок.
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Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:. Published in and written by Herman Wouk, it registers pages on my Kindle, and considerably more depending on which printed version you might pick up, so the equivalent of up to three novels.
The story begins with the invasion of Poland in September, , and concludes with the bombing of Hiroshima; the breakpoint for the two volumes is at the attack on Pearl Harbor.
In February, , ABC-TV presented a big budget WW series, shown on eight consecutive nights and totaling fourteen hours and forty minutes there was a similar series of WR five years later. The two series were masterpieces, and won a number of awards and in my humble opinion, were a critically successful forerunner for the hundreds of series available on TV today.
As I was about halfway through WW, it dawned on me that I had never read it before. The Henrys have three kids — Warren a Navy flyer, a soon to be submarine officer Byron, aka Briny I think of him as Whiney , and Madeleine who has completed one year of college and is ready to tackle New York City doing what she does not know. On the ship the Henrys meet and befriend a Brit journalist, Talky Tudsbury and his 28 year old daughter Pamela. Over the next pages, there are chapters following the lives of these main characters.
Many of the chapters are very interesting, depicting critical WWll events along with little known bits of historical fact. There are action scenes, and there are romantic scenes. Some characters are a lot more interesting than others. To break up the monotony, Wouk occasionally introduces historical characters who interface with members of the Henry family on occasion.
For example, early on in his new assignment, Pug speculates on the possibility of a German-Russian Pact, and when it comes to be he is invited to fly back to DC and meet with FDR in person to share other insights. Some chapters are not so great — early on Briny develops a relationship with Natalie, a Jewish woman, niece of a famous author.
As time passes she and uncle find it impossible to escape from Italy despite many, many pages describing their attempts to get immigration paperwork in order. I have a yellowed copy of WR and Wouk has written some interesting comments about his two books. He saw WW as a prologue, and that it need not be read before reading WR. He describes the books as romance but not as a love story. There are two additional points I would like to make to enhance your reading of these books, possibly.
The first has to do with the television production, specifically the cast. Pug Henry is played by Robert Mitchum. And perhaps rightly so. Many scenes worked anyway, but not all of them.
And I make that comment noting that WR is released five years later. It was much nicer watching Victoria Tennant as Pamela instead of conjuring up my own image. But there are drawbacks.
Secondly, the TV series was produced in the days of video tape, long before digital. The auido book left me a little confused. But great book! Very much worth the read. When it was written, the holocaust was not as prominent in our American culture as it is today and the author may have been trying to bring more attention the what the Final Solution looked like from those that suffered.
I also watched the excellent TV mini-series when it was first broadcasted. I recently re-watched the TV mini-series which prompted me to re-read the novel. I should have first re-read the novel before watching the TV mini-series. I sometimes got bored with the novel since the TV mini-series was so fresh in my memory.
As with most early novels converted to digital, there are some typographical errors, e. The typographical errors are not that numerous or significant that it would drive the Kindle reader to become a crazed proofreading critic.
Diving into sequel as we speak. Enjoying imaging career as naval officer as son of an Army one. Actually, for me, this is a re-read, as I originally bought the book in the early s, after watching the TV mini-series, which starred Robert Mitchum as the central character.
But that is not what either is about. IT is a good engaging trip through a history that many of us know nothing about. It is dated in how it depicts women but that just how it was. IT was written by a male from a male perspective.
If you do not read from a modern era perspective, you will enjoy the book. As a comparison, George R. And yet, I read it in three days. His grown children, sons Warren and Byron and daughter Madeline, are off making their own way in the world, and Pug finds himself drawn into the war in Europe when he sends a report predicting the Nazi-Soviet non-agression pact which comes to the attention of President Roosevelt. Although The Winds of War is a dense, intense book, I found myself quickly addicted to the story.
The characters were realistic and the writing very true to the era — not in a way that dates the story, but in a way that made me feel as if I was really there.
This book also helped me to understand more of the politicial, as well as historical aspects of the early part of WWII, particularly in Europe. Part history, part family saga, I truly enjoyed The Winds of War. And what, ultimately ended in the horrific death of millions. And the event of day to day life as well as the personal relationships they formed, This is one book you will want to read time and again. Herman Wouk is an expert at intertwining factual events with the fictional characters who move through the story… he never puts a foot wrong with historical or technical accuracy and displays one of the most conscientious approaches to his work that I have ever had the priviledge to read.
Rather than even attempt to precis the tale I will just say do read War and Remembrance after this one as so much more is offered… both novels apparently took 16 years to write and the result is a masterpiece.
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