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m m Wo By Kenny Pa War an?i Rcmambranca b Little, Brown; *15.00 Herman Wouk's new nove berance, is actually a sequel Winds of War, published in 19 quick to point out in his forew; War was a prologue for his ne and Remembrance can be knowledge of the first work. Wouk is a master at writing i reiteration of certain points fi War and Remembrance stand accomplishment of historical Centering his plot around family, Wouk follows the actioi the bombing of Pearl Harbor fc the war. The characterization and, at most times, exciting. CAPTAIN VICTOR Henry, a sees his hopes of commanding , His belief in the f f _ ot war cannot oe is stated in no un< the California at Pearl H* unknowing of her husband's i daughter of a respected Engli hopelessly through the war as i to an American physist for c< The Henry's youngest son, B Pacific submarine whose c< possibility 01 aeatn at tne nai daunted by the concern for hii safety. Natalie Jastrow Henry, an beautiful Jew, caught in war son and her uncle, Aaron Jast and author. i V I It* I I in mil It * ??l Ilium.in f ( i>\( ll.llU llli I illu I It \* i / lu H >K ? >M iUi'JJiUUivii h&,t ' Jp1 *mif ^ t Mkhfinp - - o luch The Henr: y Herman Wouk; navy whOSC World War Madeline H I, War and Remem- only as anil to his last novel, The Combinin 71. However, Wouk is and militai ard that The Winds of Churchill, J iw work and that War General Vol i read without any time to life and strateg Fiction and, despite the the reader r om the earlier work, the Germai Is by itself as a great fiction. MUCH R an American naval rr?aH? i of World War II from appearance 0 the official ending of carefully p is always interesting which leave The two r intertwined 30-year naval veteran, which the w a battleship sunk with time. With t of Singapor iointlessness Xi^nd | ? * while the G 1 C/OUOtOO. It of Jews in I! certain terms. the pk< atrocity ou irbor. Rhoda Henry, corps office infaithfulness with the today into sh journalist, wanders power whic a lonely wife who turns But mor< onfort. murder of lyron, a chartman on a heritage, of jurage at facing the writing this ids of the Japanese is war cannot s wife and infant son's terms. Wouk us? educated and regally the plea thf -torn Europe with her that the wc row, a famous scholar him, the k< brance. fl now ?. . Rv filrnt Horrl VAl fl Lord Foul's Ban* by Stephi 1| | |j Bailantlne; 12.50 > 11, Fantasy is one of the large* i markets today. The path > Tolkein has opened a whc * llfprnhirp 1 Under the titles of "fant fantasy/' a host of new book _ stands. As can be expecte< J below the mark. Some write nr basic formula for churning c |L , Just fill a book with multi MP* swords, magic rings, powerf jik princesses in gossamer gov S demons, politicians or any ot 3BK is connected with fantasy, Quests are also popular. "T;" 1! translated into anvthinff singing swords to far-off ki some goodies through the Grandma's. A FAN of fantasy mysel through many of these is World f's oldest son, Warren, an airfighter in t s violent death reminds the reader tti II was the first bombers' war Final lenry, a character to whom war serv iterruption of her personal style of livir g these characters with the great woi ry leaders of the time ? Rooseve Stalin, Hitler and the fictional Germ, n Roon, the author brings the war and t . With the narration of the war's battl y by the fictional Von Roon, Wouk brin tot only the American view of war but al 1 and Japanese views. :ESEARCH went into this writing w ?nt by the seven-year gap between t ! of the two novels. The result is lanned attack on the rationale for w is the reader with questions in his mir nost memorable events of the work we with irony and pity in shocking terms, nrlrf pnnlH nr u/milri nnt nnHfretnnH nf he British people believing in their colo e as the bastion of the empire and th< with their leader's not knowing of t efensibility, the Royal British Empire f erman's executed hundreds of thousan soviet and German concentration camj [)CESS of smuggling the evidence of tl t of Europe by the American diploma r Leslie Slote, offers insight relevant ev the information svstems of the clol :h America would become, e important, this detailing of the rm the Jews, combined with Wouk's Jewi fers the backdrop for his initial purpose i novel. His belief in the pointlessness : be doubted. It is stated in no uncerti ;s this historical work of fiction to ma it the concept of war is a senseless diasi >rld must forget and cease to employ, ey to this accomplishment is in reme ' concept ii ick adventures. So wh novel that attem rn R. Donation; "conventional" gr originality, I ac it growing literary eagerness. blazed by J.R.R. ?lc new world of Lord Foul's Bai end of the summei asy" or "science I finally read it. \ ls are flooding the approach into th i, many fall well Steven Donaldson rs seem to have a its first unenvial iut fantasy novels, fantasy novel, the tudes of dragons, not only bold and ill wizards, buxom some, beautiful ( vns, trolls, ogres, well, her character that Thomas Covens and the book will Bane, is one ( characters in ficti A quest could be fast-paced world from delivering been stricken by ngdoms or taking called leprosy. S Black Forest to outside world an Covenant leads ai f, I have slogged WHEN COVEN/ less-than-readable into another worh r War II t es g m HH lg- I ^ Id I _ 4 It, I B msgm ? an haffWLn ii lima i i.,,,^he ? \B|f BHA w w f i f i 1 so n^i m Aw as he ar id. ire to RfS tat ny eir :.W-i s |?l||:f- f|?|j|||Jf Mill W?m he ids his tic )al |^^m| I I iss f | f LSI1 i M w i^e H 1 fi ill ifi j ter 8L rftii nitr^ 'i,'h ^Tt^ii m- IwlPflBlflllmBM n fantasy enever 1 run across a fantasy his sw pts to break out of these suffei ounds and make a strike for slowl; cept it with long-awaited harsh an ex Co\ ne hit the stands toward the world r, and after some trepidation Covei Vhat I found was a bold new accep e field of fantasy writing, throw has given the fantasy genre dow, ble hero. In almost every girl v heroes are pictured as being Hie daring, but generally hand- begin >r physically desirable as time, world int, the hero of Lord Foul's Foul, >f the most undesirable vigor on. Covenant is a writer in the of 20th century, but he has BU' the all but forgotten disease tradit hunned by his friends, the becau d even his wife and child, use it n empty life of loneliness. Lor tasy.' %NT is mystically transposed for m< 1, he refuses to believe what clima r> I ifo W III V* P9H literati enses tell him, rationalizi ing from some dream < y killing malady. Donalds language to give readers istentialist fantasy. enant is heralded as a h< > that he is thrust into. H? iflnf (ho Ilnlvnliotrop Ka^uiii smiv viiv Viii^/IIVTVI | wvnuc it what he sees. At one po rs the rule book completel when Covenant brutally i /ho had saved his life. i book's impact comes as C s to accept his present si he acknowledges that he from the cruelly growinj and sets about his task wi r DONAMISON rnntinn ion. Covenant is given a n ise of his nagging disbelief and nearly dooms his coi d Foul's Bane is a new di rhe stark style might mak< ost, bitf the story's twists , x make the book well wor 4W i ______ isaa. BSilp! ) , Iv : I 1 i \ :fr rilPB # yVy j^B j re mg that he is caused by his on uses si am, a true rariity: iro in the new i is labeled as *e he refuses to int, Donaldson y out the winrapes a young ovenant slowly tuation. Given is to save this I grip of Lord ith determined tes to break lagic ring, but he is unable to rnrades. rection in fanb reading hard and surprising th reading.