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For Herman Wouk, who turned 102 in May, the “main task” of his life has been using his novels to teach readers about history. “To, so far as I could, fix down in literature what happened in World War II and the Holocaust,” he told CBS Sunday Morning. “That was my main task.” Wouk, who…
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