War and Remembrance.

WOUK, Herman.

Item Number: 143954

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978.

First edition, published for friends of the author’s of Wouk’s sequel to The Winds of War. Thick octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication in English and Hebrew, “For Arthur and Vida Wouk with affection Herman Wouk Dec. 78 Washington.” Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Housed in a custom slipcase.

“War and Remembrance is a stirring work of fiction and fact…. With its prologue The Winds of War (1971), War and Remembrance is for Herman Wouk the work of a lifetime… a journey of extraordinary emotional riches” (New York Times). “No writer has worked harder at the amassing of the historical facts about World War II. For that matter, no writer has ever written with such authority about the trials of the life of the writer himself” (Burgess, 99 Novels, 56).