The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0671777726
ISBN 13
9780671777722
Category
Unknown
[ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
1974
Publisher
Description
When the commanding officer of the U.S.S. Caine is transferred, a new captain, strict disciplinarian Philip Francis Queeg, replaces him. But Queeg's actions go beyond strictness into psychopathology as he brings the ship and its crew to the brink of destruction. This necessitates a brutal shipboard court-martial that threatens by turns to clear or condemn him. In adapting his novel for the theater, Herman Wouk focused on the heart of the story: the trial and the man at its center. The result is a grimly effective picture of Queeg's disintegration from perfectionist to paranoid that acts as an indictment not only of an individual but of a society that produces such men. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
