The Caine Mutiny

Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life and mutiny on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater inspired the now-classic film The Caine Mutiny and the hit Broadway play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. Upon its original publication in 1951, it was immediately embraced as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and human consequences of World War II.