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The Caine Mutiny  

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  • Novel by Herman Wouk, 1951 Film directed by Edward Dmytryk, 1954 An epic of ordinary men caught in the maelstrom of World War II, The Caine Mutiny earned author Herman Wouk the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1952 and became a successful Broadway play, television movie, and motion picture. Critics hailed the novel as a serious examination of the unique moral dilemmas faced by naval officers in wartime, and applauded a sophisticated plot that offered no clear-cut heroes or villains. [Source: Encyclopedia of War & American Society; Caine Mutiny, The]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-P2564VP5-7

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