![]() ![]() He enlisted immediately after that attack, attending midshipman school at Columbia University and communications school at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. Wouk was an established writer by the time of Pearl Harbor. Wouk’s fictional revolt rings true because he was writing from intimate firsthand experience during World War II with the conditions, ships, and character types he portrays. Since then, Wouk’s story has been retold countless times on stage, in film, and on television. The Caine Mutiny earned seven Academy Award nominations. The 1954 film based on the book starred Humphrey Bogart in his least typical and arguably greatest role as Lieutenant Commander Philip Francis Queeg, the paranoid bully who captains a beleaguered destroyer-minesweeper. Wouk adapted the novel, his third, into a hit play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial became a much-produced classic. This 1951 study of men at war with a foreign foe and with each other spent 122 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and received a Pulitzer Prize in 1952. Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny may be the greatest American novel of World War II. Why a classic World War II story always matters. ![]()
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