copyright 1978; Little, Brown and Company, Boston; larger hardbound; very good condition with unmarked pages except for previous owner's initials inside front; dust jacket very good with very minor edge wear.
 
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A masterpiece of historical fiction and “a journey of extraordinary riches” (New York Times Book Review), War and Remembrance stands as perhaps the great novel of America’s “Greatest Generation.”
 
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 and Jastrow families from 15 December 1941 through 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.  The story includes historical occurrences at Midway, Yalta, Guadalcanal, and El Alamein as well as the Allied invasions at Normandy and the Philippines.
 
One of the more significant themes in the novel and one that occurs in many of Wouk's works is a rediscovery of a central character's Jewish identify. Biblical scholar Aaron Jastrow, and his niece Natalie Henry's experience of the holocaust and their internment in Theresienstadt Ghetto are the events that trigger their newfound identification with their Judaism, Jastrow having formerly converted to Catholicism.[1] "Jastrow is transformed from a rational professor with only marginal awareness of his Jewishness into a passionate champion of his Jewish integrity" according to one reporter.[