Who was the author of the book The Winds of War?
"received many accolades, including Golden Globe nominations and various Emmy wins and nominations. Won: Nominated: The Winds of War (miniseries) The Winds of War is a 1983 miniseries, directed and produced by Dan Curtis, that follows the book of the same name written by Herman Wouk. Just as in the book, in addition to the lives of the Henry and Jastrow families, much time in the miniseries is devoted to the major global events of this period. Adolf Hitler and the German General Staff, with the fictitious general Armin von Roon as a major character, is a prominent subplot of"
"American government and people. War and Remembrance War and Remembrance is a novel by Herman Wouk, published in October 1978 as the sequel to Wouk's ""The Winds of War"" (1971). ""The Winds of War"" covers the period 1939 to 1941, and ""War and Remembrance"" continues the story of the extended Henry family and the Jastrow family starting on 15 December 1941 and ending on 6 August 1945. The novel was adapted into a television mini-series, ""War and Remembrance"", and presented on American television in 1988. Wouk was a screenwriter for the miniseries as well as being author of the book."
"War and Remembrance War and Remembrance is a novel by Herman Wouk, published in October 1978 as the sequel to Wouk's ""The Winds of War"" (1971). ""The Winds of War"" covers the period 1939 to 1941, and ""War and Remembrance"" continues the story of the extended Henry family and the Jastrow family starting on 15 December 1941 and ending on 6 August 1945. The novel was adapted into a television mini-series, ""War and Remembrance"", and presented on American television in 1988. Wouk was a screenwriter for the miniseries as well as being author of the book. ""War and Remembrance"" completes"
"The Virtues of War The Virtues of War is a 2004 historical fiction novel by Steven Pressfield that follows the life of Alexander the Great, told through the eyes of a Hellenic-Persian scribe serving under him during his campaigns into India. Alexander is recounting the events of his life to the young scholar just before he dies in Babylon. Alexander first recounts of his younger days serving under his father, Philip II of Macedon, and Philip's expansion of Macedonian hegemony throughout Greece and Thrace. After his father's assassination, Alexander assumes control of the Macedonian throne and re-subdues Greece. He invades"
"The War of the Worlds The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialised in 1897 by ""Pearson's Magazine"" in the UK and by ""Cosmopolitan"" magazine in the US. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of both an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and of his younger brother in London as southern England is invaded"
"The People of the Wind The People of the Wind is a science fiction novel by American writer Poul Anderson, first published in 1973. It was a 1974 nominee of the Nebula Award for Science Fiction. The novel is the last book in Anderson’s Polesotechnic League series. However, since the setting of the book is many generations after the series' two main characters, Nicholas van Rijn and David Falkayn, and many generations before Anderson's follow-up series, the Terran Empire; it is more proper to consider this book a bridge between the two series. ""The People of the Wind"" is a"
"The Book of the War The Book of the War is a hypertext multi-author novel presented in the form of an encyclopedia of the first 50 years of the War in the Faction Paradox universe based on the ""Doctor Who"" universe. The book was edited by Lawrence Miles, and written by Miles, Simon Bucher-Jones, Daniel O'Mahony, Ian McIntire, Mags L. Halliday, Helen Fayle, Philip Purser-Hallard, Kelly Hale, Jonathan Dennis, and Mark Clapham. Although various plot threads can be found in the book, its real value lies in the wealth of ideas on display. It's primarily a guide to many of"
"remains the most influential strategy text in East Asian warfare. It has a profound influence on both Eastern and Western military thinking, business tactics, legal strategy and beyond. The book was first translated and published into French in 1772 (re-published in 1782) by the French Jesuit Jean Joseph Marie Amiot and a partial translation into English was attempted by British officer Everard Ferguson Calthrop in 1905 under the title The Book of War. The first annotated English translation was completed and published by Lionel Giles in 1910. Numerous military and political leaders such as the Chinese communist revolutionary Mao Zedong,"
"The Name of the Wind The Name of the Wind, also called The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One, is a fantasy novel written by American author Patrick Rothfuss. It is the first book in a series called ""The Kingkiller Chronicle"" and followed by ""The Wise Man's Fear"". It was published on March 27, 2007 by DAW Books. Rothfuss wrote ""The Name of the Wind"" during his nine-year advance toward his B.S. in English. He drew inspiration from the idea that he wanted a completely new kind of book that doesn't have the generic characteristics of fantasy. A sequel entitled ""The Wise"
"Patrick Rothfuss Patrick James Rothfuss (born June 6, 1973) is an American writer of epic fantasy. He is best known for his series ""The Kingkiller Chronicle"", which won him several awards, including the 2007 Quill Award for his debut novel, ""The Name of the Wind"". Its sequel, ""The Wise Man's Fear"", topped The New York Times Best Seller list. Patrick Rothfuss was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and received his B.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point in 1999. He contributed to ""The Pointer"", the campus paper, and produced a widely circulated parody warning about the Goodtimes Virus. He"
"The Devil's Wind The Devil's Wind is a historical novel by Manohar Malgonkar that tells the story of Nana Saheb, the heir of the last Peshwa of the Maratha Confederacy, who played a leading role in the 1857 War of Independence. It provides a sympathetic portrait of a man whom the British portrayed as a great villain, and is based on historical sources as far as possible. The book is written as an autobiography in which Nana Saheb describes his life in his own words. Nana Saheb was the adopted son of Bajirao II, the last Maratha Peshwa, and heir"
"Kenneth Grahame Kenneth Grahame ( ; 8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer, most famous for ""The Wind in the Willows"" (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote ""The Reluctant Dragon"". Both books were later adapted for stage and film, of which A. A. Milne's ""Toad of Toad Hall"" was the first. The Disney films ""The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad"" and ""The Reluctant Dragon"" are other adaptations. Kenneth Grahame was born on 8 March 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland. When he was a little more than a year old, his father,"
"Indian point of view"". Reviewing the 1972 Edition, ""Books of The Times, USA"" wrote 'interesting, intriguing, very humane, convincing...Has the touch of Kipling genius for story telling' ""Illustrated London News"" wrote 'Manohar Malgonkar is a master of English prose' The Devil's Wind The Devil's Wind is a historical novel by Manohar Malgonkar that tells the story of Nana Saheb, the heir of the last Peshwa of the Maratha Confederacy, who played a leading role in the 1857 War of Independence. It provides a sympathetic portrait of a man whom the British portrayed as a great villain, and is based on"
"The Winds of Dune The Winds of Dune is a science fiction novel written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, set in the ""Dune"" universe created by Frank Herbert. Released on August 4, 2009, it is the second book in the ""Heroes of Dune"" series and chronicles events between Frank Herbert's ""Dune Messiah"" (1969) and ""Children of Dune"" (1976).<ref name=""11/29/09 blog""></ref> Before publication, the novel's title was initially announced as Jessica of Dune.<ref name=""4/23/07 blog""></ref><ref name=""4/14/2008 blog""></ref> The novel rose to #15 on ""The New York Times"" Best Seller list in its second week of publication. The novel opens"
"Chronicler of the Winds Chronicler of the Winds (Original title: ) is a novel written by Henning Mankell in Swedish in 1995. The story is set in an unnamed port city in Africa which resembles Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, where the author often lived and worked. The narrator is a baker who finds a ten-year-old boy called Nelio. The boy has been shot on the stage of a theatre, and he tells the baker his life story and all his troubles, including living on the street, being persecuted for albinism, and being traumatized as a child soldier. Nelio is"
"The Winds of Winter The Winds of Winter is the planned sixth novel in the epic fantasy series ""A Song of Ice and Fire"" by American writer George R. R. Martin. Martin believes the last two volumes of the series will be books of 1,500+ manuscript pages each. They will take readers farther north than any of the previous books, and the Others will appear in ""The Winds of Winter"". Martin has refrained from making hard estimates for the final release date of the novel. In April 2018, Martin revealed that the book would not be published in 2018. ""The"
"The War of the End of the World The War of the End of the World () is a 1981 novel written by Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa. It is a novelization of the War of Canudos conflict in late 19th-century Brazil. In the midst of the economic decline — following drought and the end of slavery — in the province of Bahia in Northeastern Brazil, the poor of the backlands are attracted by the charismatic figure and simple religious teachings of Antonio Conselheiro, called ""The Counselor"", who preaches that the end of the world is imminent and that the"
"he never attempted a sequel. The book is still widely enjoyed by adults and children today, also in films, while Toad remains one of the most celebrated and beloved characters. In 1929, A. A. Milne wrote the play ""Toad of Toad Hall"", which is based on part of ""The Wind in the Willows. The Wind in the Willows"" won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958. In the 1990s, William Horwood produced with a series of sequels. Kenneth Grahame Kenneth Grahame ( ; 8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer, most famous for ""The Wind in"
"War and War War and War () is a 1999 novel by the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai. It tells the story of a Hungarian man who is obsessed with a mysterious manuscript, which he decides to travel to New York City to write down and post on the Internet. An English translation by George Szirtes was published in 2006. ""The New Yorker's"" James Wood wrote in 2011: ""this is one of the most profoundly unsettling experiences I have had as a reader. By the end of the novel, I felt that I had got as close as literature could possibly"
"Eric Linklater Eric Robert Russell Linklater (8 March 1899 – 7 November 1974) was a Welsh-born Scottish writer of novels, writer of poems and short stories, military history, and travel books. For ""The Wind on the Moon"", a children's fantasy novel, he won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book by a British subject. Linklater was born in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, to the Orcadian master mariner Robert Baikie Linklater (1865–1916) and his wife Mary Elizabeth (c.1867–1957), daughter of James Young, also a master mariner. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School"
"the war, including ""Winged Warfare"" (1918) by Canadian William Bishop, ""Flying Fury"" (1918) by English ace James McCudden and ""The Red Fighter Pilot"" (1917) by Manfred von Richthofen (the latter two men were killed in action after their books were written). After the war many participants published their memoirs and diaries. One of the first was ""Storm of Steel"" (1920) by German writer Ernst Junger, an account of his experiences as an officer on the Western Front (it was first published in English in 1930). The first memoirs of Allied combatants were published in 1922, not long after the armistice:"
"The Shadow of the Wind The Shadow of the Wind () is a 2001 novel by Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón and a worldwide bestseller. The book was translated into English in 2004 by Lucia Graves and sold over a million copies in the UK after already achieving success on mainland Europe, topping the Spanish bestseller lists for weeks. It was published in the United States by Penguin Books and in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Orion Books. It is believed to have sold 15 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling books of all time."
"Undertones of War Undertones or War is a 1928 memoir of the First World War, written by English poet Edmund Blunden. As with two other famous war memoirs-—Siegfried Sassoon's ""Sherston trilogy"", and Robert Graves' ""Good-Bye to All That""--""Undertones"" represents Blunden's first prose publication, and was one of the earliest contributors to the flurry of Great War books to come out of England in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Paul Fussell has called Undertones of War an ""extended elegy in prose,"" and critics have commented on its lack of central narrative. Like Henri Barbusse's ""Under Fire"" and Erich Maria Remarque's"
"Herman Wouk Herman Wouk (; born May 27, 1915) is an American author. His 1951 novel ""The Caine Mutiny"" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His other works include ""The Winds of War"" and ""War and Remembrance"", historical novels about World War II, and non-fiction such as ""This Is My God"", a popular explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective, written for Jewish and non-Jewish audiences. His books have been translated into 27 languages. ""The Washington Post"" called Wouk, who cherishes his privacy, ""the reclusive dean of American historical novelists."" Historians, novelists, publishers, and critics who gathered at the"
"first poet of the war"". World War II saw the emergence of a new generation of poets, many of whom were influenced by Wallace Stevens and Richard Eberhart (1904–2005). Karl Shapiro (1913–2000), Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) and James Dickey (1923–1997) all wrote poetry that sprang from experience of active service. Together with Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979), Theodor Seuss Geisel ('Dr. Seuss') (1904-1991), Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) and Delmore Schwartz (1913–1966), they formed a generation of poets that in contrast to the preceding generation often wrote in traditional verse forms. After the war, a number of new poets and poetic movements emerged. John Berryman"
"and ""The Winds of Winter"" would not be published in 2018. Since then he at least four times confirmed he was continuing work on ""The Winds of Winter"". The Winds of Winter The Winds of Winter is the planned sixth novel in the epic fantasy series ""A Song of Ice and Fire"" by American writer George R. R. Martin. Martin believes the last two volumes of the series will be books of 1,500+ manuscript pages each. They will take readers farther north than any of the previous books, and the Others will appear in ""The Winds of Winter"". Martin has"
"The Origins of the Second World War The Origins of the Second World War is a non-fiction book by the English historian A. J. P. Taylor, examining the causes of World War II. It was first published in 1961 by Hamish Hamilton. Taylor had previously written ""The Struggle for Mastery in Europe"", which covered the period 1848 until 1918. As he later wrote in his autobiography: I wanted to be writing something and decided that I could carry on my diplomatic history from the point where the ""Struggle for Mastery"" left off. I had, I thought, done most of the"
"Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1997; Trinity College (Connecticut), Hartford, Connecticut, 1998; The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 2001 (Hon. D.Litt.). Herman Wouk Herman Wouk (; born May 27, 1915) is an American author. His 1951 novel ""The Caine Mutiny"" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His other works include ""The Winds of War"" and ""War and Remembrance"", historical novels about World War II, and non-fiction such as ""This Is My God"", a popular explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective, written for Jewish and non-Jewish audiences. His books have been translated into 27 languages. ""The Washington Post"" called Wouk,"
"War and Peace War and Peace (pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform ) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It is regarded as a central work of world literature and one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements. The novel chronicles the history of the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families. Portions of an earlier version, titled ""The Year 1805"", were serialized in ""The Russian Messenger"" from 1865 to 1867. The novel was first published in its entirety in 1869. Tolstoy said ""War and Peace"""
"start of the First World War in 1914 there were hundreds of authors writing invasion literature, often topping the best seller lists in Germany, France, England and the United States. During the period it is estimated over 400 invasion works were published. Probably the best known work was H. G. Wells's ""The War of the Worlds"" (1898), bearing plot similarities to ""The Battle of Dorking"" but with a science fiction theme. In 1907, Wells wrote ""The War in the Air"", a cautionary tale depicting purely human invasions: a German invasion of the US triggers off a worldwide chain of attacks"
"Revolutionary War up to World War II. In later books, the action moves from Williamsburg to New York City, Richmond, Virginia and England. The novels are, in chronological order: Elswyth Thane Helen Elswyth Thane Ricker Beebe (May 16, 1900 – July 31, 1984) was an American romance novelist. Born in Burlington, Iowa, she was the daughter of a local teacher and high school principal. The family moved to New York City in 1918, and ""Helen Ricker"" changed her name to ""Elswyth Thane"". She began working as a freelance writer in the 20s, and became a newspaper writer and a Hollywood"
"Tides of War Tides of War is a novel by Steven Pressfield, chronicling the Peloponnesian War. Jason, a disciple of Socrates, is asked to help defend Polemides, infamous in Athens as the man who assassinated Alcibiades. Predisposed to despise Polemides for his actions, Jason is taken by the man's graciousness, his open admission of his crimes, and the parallels between his and Jason's service in the war. Aged nineteen at the outbreak of the war (431 BC), Polemides enlists in the Athenian army sent to hasten the end of the siege of Potidaea. Alcibiades, also a common infantryman, makes an"
"had six children (Vid, Csaba, Huba, Miklós, Géza, Endre); Csaba died at age 3. Huba Wass de Czege, born in 1941 in Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania) had a significant career in the U.S. Army, achieving rank of brigadier general. He is known as a principal designer of the ""AirLand Battle"" military doctrine., and took part in the planning of Desert Storm against Iraq in 1991. Wass started to write poems, short stories and articles. His first books were published in 1927 and 1929 in Cluj. In 1934, his novel ""Farkasverem"" (""Wolfpit"") was published by the Transylvanian Guild of Arts. In"