The saga begins in Cape Cod. This spring, we were combing through the store at the local dump, and I picked up a copy of Winds of War by Herman Wouk. Price: free!The book recounted the story of a fictional military family, the Henrys, during World War II. The historical details and insight are extensive, and as far as I can tell, wholly accurate. It was almost a thousand pages in length, and took me over a month to read. Worse, somewhere around page 800, I realized the story had barely progressed through a third of the war yet. That's when I learned about a second book, War and Remembrance, which constitute the continuation of the story!
I now find myself engrossed in a second 1000-page tome. No complaints, however, as the story is excellent, very interesting to me, and much exercise is derived from carrying the "project" everywhere.
The only problem: it may take me longer to read these books than it took the world to struugle through WWII the first time!
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