Background Information
Herman Wouk: American novelist, A Pulitzer Prize winner. Famous works: THE WINDS of WAR (1971) and WAR and REMEMBRANCE (1977).
Pulitzer Prize: founded by Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), American newspaper publisher who gave Columbia University $2,000,000 in 1903 for the creation of the Columbia School of Journalism and also the Prizes. Today there are Pulitzer Prizes for distinguished works in American fiction, drama, history, biography and autobiography, nonfiction, poetry and music.
The Winds of War: The story is a fiction with the main character, Pug Victor Henry being a mid-rank officer who witnesses all the major events during World War II.
A novelty of this fiction is, with the ongoing of the story itself, a imaginary reminiscences by a German strategist was put in at intervals of chapters. That is to say, every a couple of chapters into the novel, an episode of that reminiscences was quoted to provide an opposite-side view of the war situation, which enables the reader to view the historical events with and all-round angle.