Caine Mutiny, TheThe Novel that Inspired the Now Classic Film The Caine Mutiny and the Hit Broadway Play The Caine Mutiny Court Martial Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life and mutiny on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater was immediately embraced, upon its original publication in 1951, as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of World War II. In the