What Wouk ultimately seems to trust is neither command nor law alone, but conscience—fragile, pressured, often belated.
THE CAINE MUTINY (494 pp.)—Herman Wouk—Doubleday ($3.95). Lieut. Commander Philip Queeg of the U.S.S. Caine, a four-piper destroyer converted to minesweeping, was a phony and misfit skipper. A pallid ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Herman Wouk, the versatile, Pulitzer Prize winning author of such million-selling novels as “The Caine Mutiny” and “The Winds of War” whose steady Jewish faith inspired his stories of ...
The 1954 film "The Caine Mutiny" was based upon a novel of the same name by Herman Wouk published in 1951. Although the book was extremely popular and won the Pulitzer Prize, no Hollywood studio was ...