Kane's ship mutiny

Author: Herman Wouk (USA)
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This is certainly not the mutiny of old—only flashing swords, the captain imprisoned, and despairing sailors becoming irredeemable outlaws. It occurred in the U.S. Navy in 1944. On the nearly obsolete warship the Caine, the most famous mutiny in the history of the U.S. Navy broke out. Led by the first officer Marlowe, the mutineers—were they heroes with a sense of responsibility and justice, rescuing the ship from peril, or villains plotting a deliberate rebellion? Or were they freedom fighters who could no longer endure the tyranny of a tyrant and rose in defiance? Captain Queeg—was he an autocratic tyrant, or a cowardly, scared-of-death weakling? Was he a paranoid who had lost his mind due to immense pressure, or a true outstanding military man, a silent hero faithfully serving and protecting the country? What is the answer? The U.S. Navy's military court delivered its judgment and verdict. But the author Herman Wouk did not, and no reader who has read this book will likely have their own verdict. This is certainly not the mutiny of old—only flashing swords, the captain imprisoned, and despairing sailors becoming irredeemable outlaws. It occurred in the U.S. Navy in 1944. On the nearly obsolete warship the Caine, the most famous mutiny in the history of the U.S. Navy broke out. Led by the first officer Marlowe, the mutineers—were they heroes with a sense of responsibility and justice, rescuing the ship from peril, or villains plotting a deliberate rebellion? Or were they freedom fighters who could no longer endure the tyranny of a tyrant and rose in defiance? Captain Queeg—was he an autocratic tyrant, or a cowardly, scared-of-death weakling? Was he a paranoid who had lost his mind due to immense pressure, or a true outstanding military man, a silent hero faithfully serving and protecting the country? What is the answer? The U.S. Navy's military court delivered its judgment and verdict. But the author Herman Wouk did not, and no reader who has read this book will likely have their own verdict.