Herman Wouk
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Language
English
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Herman Wouk is one of this century's great historical novelists, whose peerless talent for capturing the human drama of landmark world events has earned him worldwide acclaim. In The Hope, his long-awaited return to historical fiction, he turns to one of the most thrilling stories of our time - the saga of Israel. In the grand, epic style of The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, The Hope plunges the reader into the major battles, the disasters...
Author
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Publisher
L.A. Theatre Works
Language
English
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Description
Based on his novel of the same name, this acclaimed WWII psychological courtroom drama was the sensation of the 1954 Broadway season. The play portrays a mutiny of naval officers aboard the U.S.S. Caine, whose suspicions concerning the sanity of the captain lead to their rebellion and subsequent court-martial.
7) The lawgiver
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Margo Solovei, a brilliant young writer-director has rejected her rabbinical father's strict Jewish upbringing to pursue a career in the arts. When an Australian multi-billionaire promises to finance a movie about Moses if the script meets certain standards, Margo does everything she can to land the job, including a reunion with her estranged first love, an influential lawyer with whom she still has unfinished business.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Physicist Guy Carpenter finds his peaceful life with a prestigious career at NASA turned upside down by a Chinese scientific discovery that raises serious questions about possible military implications, an old love affair, and national security.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A hilarious and heartbreaking novel about retreating from the madness of modern life and escaping to a tropical paradise. Inspired in part by Herman Wouk's own experience of living for seven years on an island in the sun, the novel tells the story of Norman Paperman, a New York City press agent who, facing the onset of middle age, runs away to a Caribbean island to reinvent himself as a hotel keeper. Zany mishaps, illicit love, hilarity, and disaster--of...
11) The Caine mutiny
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Bogart plays the Captain of a ship whose erratic behavior forces a mutiny.
12) The Caine mutiny
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Bogart plays the Captain of a ship whose erratic behavior forces a mutiny.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Set in early 1945, during the height of World War II, it involves the court-martial of Lt. Maryk for relieving Lt. Cmdr. Queeg of command of the destroyer U.S.S. Caine at the height of a storm. Lt. Greenwald, the defense attorney, is forced to mount a defense on behalf of Lt. Maryk, despite being a bit ambivalent towards his client.
14) The winds of war
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
The first two years of WWII, before U.S. involvement, as seen through the eyes of a naval commander stationed at Pearl Harbor.
15) Youngblood Hawke
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
A truck driver arrives in New York City intent on making it as a writer. Aided by a friendly editor, Jeanne Green, Hawke's star is on the rise, both among the intelligentsia and the jet set. Hawke inevitably succumbs to the lures of high society, breaking Jeanne's heart and eventually seeing his career destroyed by the jealous husband of one of his paramours.
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Series
Publisher
Listen & Live Audio, Inc
Language
English
Description
Hear the stories of men and women battling the elements, and sometimes each other, to stay alive, confronting savage storms, rogue waves, icebergs, sharks, starvation and their own fear and suffering. From Sebastian Junger's The Whale Hunter to Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny to Lawrence Beesley's The Loss of The S.S. Titanic, Rough Water is a unique collection of the finest writing on why men and women go to sea, and
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