How long does it take to read The Winds of War?
The Winds of War by Herman Wouk takes about 17 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 17 hours 36 minutes
A long haul
First published 1971. 960 pages, about 264,000 words.
36 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 29 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 17 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 11 hours |
The page count is the median across 52 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Follows the various members of the Henry family as they become involved in the events preceeding America's involvement in World War II. Like no other masterpiece of historical fiction, Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II is the great novel of America's Greatest Generation. Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events, as well as all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II, as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom. The Winds of War and its sequel War and Remembrance stand as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers.
Subjects: Fiction, War stories, Historical fiction, Fiction, war & military
