The “winds of war” have scattered the family across the Earth Warren’s younger brother, Byron (“Briny”), is aboard the submarine Devilfish on a perilous mission to Lingayen Gulf, where the Japanese are landing the first of several divisions to seize the Philippines.Henry’s elder son, Warren, now a US Navy Lieutenant, pilots a dive-bomber housed on the carrier Enterprise under Admiral William “Bull” Halsey.The Northampton is the flagship of Admiral Raymond Spruance‘s fleet in the Pacific. Henry himself is now in command of the heavy cruiser Northampton, the consolation prize for the battleship he was supposed to lead, which is now heavily damaged at Pearl Harbor.The entry of the United States into the conflict finds US Navy Captain Victor “Pug” Henry, his family, and friends scattered about the globe. The second of Herman Wouk’s two World War II novels opens.
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