"As a modern sea adventure it is absolutely first-rank reading." --Lee
Rogow, Saturday Review
The novel that inspired the now-classic film The Caine Mutiny and the
hit Broadway play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of
life--and mutiny--on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater was
immediately embraced, upon its original publication in 1951, as one of
the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral
complexities and the human consequences of World War II. In the
intervening half century, The Caine Mutiny has achieved the status of
a modern classic.
"At last! A war story which gives you a rounded view of the way men at
war behave.... Here you have a novel which can be read through like an
adventure story--fast, straightshooting narrative that goes direct to
the point with no weaving and winding, no waste motion, and no agonized
soul searching... . The high point of the book, for me, is not the
mutiny itself, thrilling though it is. Utterly absorbing is the
court-martial.... Don't miss it." --Kelsey Guilfoil, Chicago Tribune
"The Caine Mutiny has the time sense, the sense of being hopelessly
isolated and cut off from home, which every veteran remembers; it has
the scope and the skill to reveal how men are tested, exposed, and
developed under the long routine of war; finally, it has the slow-fused
but inevitably accumulating tension of the mutiny which gives both form
and explosive climax to the story." --Edward Weeks, Atlantic Monthly
