Cultured Warrior: Byron Henry is studying fine arts before the war.

Cowardly Lion: Slote views himself as a coward, but his drive not to be one inspires him to commit some brave acts, and he ends up dying in battle.

Von Roon of course, thinks that when Germans do such things it is brilliant statesmanship.

The Chessmaster: Roosevelt, according to von Roon, who credits him with a fiendish plan against Germany.

Brilliant, but Lazy: Byron Henry is obviously brilliant, but introduced as a directionless failed-art student.

Badass Israeli: Invoked by General Von Roon, who points to the success of the Israeli army to argue that the Germans could have won the war if they had allowed the Jews to fight on their side.

Badass Bureaucrat: Victor acts as this much of the time.Ambadassador: Victor, in the first volume.However, she has learned the lesson that Jews will never be safe relying on protection of others, so she heads to Palestine, instead, to join the fight for new Jewish state.

With the war over and the family miraculously reunited, Natalie is free to return to US and lead a safe and privileged life with Byron and their son. And the Adventure Continues: Of a slightly morbid variety.Ace Pilot: Warren Henry is a pilot though not technically an ace.While he could be pardoned for not believing rumors of the Holocaust, he could at least have figured out that being in Europe during a major war might not be be prudent. Absent-Minded Professor: Aaron Jastrow.Not to be confused with the Web Comic The War of Winds. It has been called a World War II version of War and Peace and both volumes were adapted into TV miniseries in the '80s. All the fictional characters regularly meet up with real historical figures from the war, intertwining fiction with fact. In effect, the novels comprise a 'sight-seeing' tour, in which we are shown the war from as many perspectives as the author can manage, including excerpts from a pro-German history of the war by a fictional German general, Armin Von Roon.

Navy family) and the Jastrows (a Jewish family) and their friends around the world during the war, with The Winds of War covering the period from the late 1930s up through the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and War and Remembrance covering the rest of the war. Both novels follow two American families, the Henrys (a U.S. A historical epic of World War II written by Herman Wouk ( The Caine Mutiny) and published in two volumes, The Winds of War (1971) and War and Remembrance (1978).

The winds of war by herman wouk