![]() ![]() And, though it doesn't exactly fit the criteria of this post, Wouk's The Caine Mutiny is fantastic as well. I also really enjoyed Wouk's two-novel series about the founding of Israel, The Hope and The Glory. Most (old) people probably know this story from the 1983 Robert Mitchum mini-series, but I highly recommend the books - if you've got a few, um, months, of free reading time. I learned more about World War II from Herman Wouk's hulking two-book series, The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, than I did in any high school or college history course (and I was a history minor!). My favorite was The Source, but Texas was very good, too. Of his more than 25 books, I've read four: Caribbean (810 pages), The Source (1,078 pages), Chesapeake (1,083 pages), and Texas (1,322 pages). ![]() His books are infamous for almost literally starting with the dinosaurs, and then progressing through time to the present in a series of connected vignettes that hit all the major historical events of the place he's telling you about. Not counting Leo Tolstoy, Michener is probably the originator of this genre - publishing massive tome after massive tome that rarely drop below 700 pages. ![]()
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