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Hey, i found the foto of Victor Henry, the protagonist of Winds of War.
»Standing well back in the rank of King’s staff officers, this short unknown Navy captain, whose face would be lost in the photographs, (…)«
#ospalhReads #WindsOfWar #Wouk #AtlanticCharta #FDR #Roosevelt #Churchill

» Did he (the Gestapo-man Natalie had seen half a continent away) recognize you?”
“He gave me quite a stare.”
“I wouldn’t worry about it. Those men stare for a living.”«

Oh, if staring was all they did for a living.

I hav red the book once before, years ago. I can’t remember which of the Jews in the book survive, if any. Probably one of these two? She just married a US military man.

#ospalReads #WindsOfWar #Wouk

Even when they try, it looks like Usonian authors really can’t get a grip on the International System of units.
In one sene, a woman drives a car down the autobahn (A11, Berlin to then-Stettin) and »rocketed the needle to one hundred fifty kilometers an hour. «
Good. 👍🏼
In the next sene, Kriegsmarine officers talk about »wearing seventy-pound loads«. 🤔
How much‽ 30.75 kg‽ I rather dout that. Just say 30 kg.
#OspalhReads #WindsOfWar #Wouk
#SI #measurement #pound

Even when they try, it looks like Usonian authors really can’t get a grip on the International System of units.
In one sene, a woman drives a car down the autobahn (A11, Berlin to then-Stettin) and »rocketed the needle to one hundred fifty kilometers an hour. «
Good. 👍🏼
In the next sene, Kriegsmarine officers talk about »wearing seventy-pound loads«. 🤔
How much‽ 30.75 kg‽ I rather dout that. Just say 30 kg.
#OspalhReads #WindsOfWar #Wouk
#SI #measurement #pound

»“Hitler has been making irrational moves with catastrophic possibilities,” Slote retorted. “Anybody can pull a gun in the street and shoot four people down before the cops come and stop him. Until now that’s been Hitler’s so-called foreign policy brilliance in a nutshell. The surprise of an outlaw running wild.”«

What to say to an American Jew living in Italy in early 1939 who doesn’t want to leave.

#OspalhReads #Wouk #WindsofWar

»“Hitler has been making irrational moves with catastrophic possibilities,” Slote retorted. “Anybody can pull a gun in the street and shoot four people down before the cops come and stop him. Until now that’s been Hitler’s so-called foreign policy brilliance in a nutshell. The surprise of an outlaw running wild.”«

What to say to an American Jew living in Italy in early 1939 who doesn’t want to leave.

#OspalhReads #Wouk #WindsofWar

»“Hitler has been making irrational moves with catastrophic possibilities,” Slote retorted. “Anybody can pull a gun in the street and shoot four people down before the cops come and stop him. Until now that’s been Hitler’s so-called foreign policy brilliance in a nutshell. The surprise of an outlaw running wild.”«

What to say to an American Jew living in Italy in early 1939 who doesn’t want to leave.

#OspalhReads #Wouk #WindsofWar

»“Hitler has been making irrational moves with catastrophic possibilities,” Slote retorted. “Anybody can pull a gun in the street and shoot four people down before the cops come and stop him. Until now that’s been Hitler’s so-called foreign policy brilliance in a nutshell. The surprise of an outlaw running wild.”«

What to say to an American Jew living in Italy in early 1939 who doesn’t want to leave.

#OspalhReads #Wouk #WindsofWar