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Leon Uris

    August 3, 1924 – June 21, 2003

    Leon Uris was an American novelist renowned for his deep research and compelling historical fiction. His narratives often delved into pivotal historical moments, from the fierce battles of the Pacific theater to the intricate establishment of the state of Israel and Ireland's struggle for independence. Uris possessed a distinctive style, marked by meticulously detailed portrayals of historical events and the lives of the ordinary individuals caught within them. His ability to transport readers into the past, illuminating complex historical narratives with vivid human experiences, solidified his reputation as a master storyteller.

    Leon Uris
    QB VII
    Trinity
    Mila 18
    Ireland a Terrible Beauty
    Exodus
    Battle Cry
    • Battle Cry is the riveting Marine epic by the bestselling author of such classics as Trinity and Exodus. Originally published in 1953, Leon Uris's Battle Cry is the raw and exciting story of men at war from a legendary American author. This is the story of enlisted men – Marines – at the beginning of World War II. They are a rough–and–ready tangle of guys from America's cities and farms and reservations. Led by a tough veteran sergeant, these soldiers band together to emerge as part of one of the most elite fighting forces in the world. With staggering realism and detail, we follow them into intense battles – Guadalcanal and Tarawa – and through exceptional moments of camaraderie and bravery. Battle Cry does not extol the glories of war, but proves itself to be one of the greatest war stories of all time.

      Battle Cry
    • Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury: the story of an American nurse, an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era.

      Exodus
    • Photographs and text combine to provide a tour of the cities, towns, and rural areas of the Republic and of Ulster and of their history and current troubles

      Ireland a Terrible Beauty
    • Mila 18

      • 576 pages
      • 21 hours of reading
      4.3(24188)Add rating

      It was a time of crisis, a time of tragedy and a time of transcendent courage and determination. Leon Uris's novel is set in the midst of the ghetto uprising that defied Nazi tyranny, as the Jews of Warsaw boldly met Wehrmacht tanks with homemade weapons and bare fists. Here, painted on a canvas as broad as its subject matter, is the compelling story of one of the most heroic struggles of modern times.

      Mila 18
    • Conor Larkin: gun-runner and maker of revolutions. Shelley MacCleod: the working class Protestant girl who joined herself to Conor and his bloody, zealous cause. Roger Hubble: member of an arrogant clan. Lady Caroline: the most beautiful woman anyone had ever seen.

      Trinity
    • In Queen’s Bench Courtroom Number Seven, famous author Abraham Cady stands trial. In his book The Holocaust—born of the terrible revelation that the Jadwiga Concentration Camp was the site of his family’s extermination—Cady shook the consciousness of the human race. He also  named eminent surgeon Sir Adam Kelno as one of Jadwiga’s most sadistic inmate/doctors. Kelno has denied this and brought furious charges. Now unfolds Leon Uris’s riveting courtroom drama—one of the great fictional trials of the century.

      QB VII
    • The Haj

      • 525 pages
      • 19 hours of reading
      4.1(12702)Add rating

      Leon Uris retums to the land of his acclaimed  best-seller Exodus for an epic  story of hate and love, vengeance and forgiveness and  forgiveness. The Middle East is the powerful  setting for this sweeping tale of a land where revenge  is sacred and hatred noble. Where an Arab ruler  tries to save his people from destruction but  cannot save them from themselves. When violence  spreads like a plague across the lands of  Palestine--this is the time of The  Haj.

      The Haj
    • On the eve of the Cuban Missile Crisis, American and French intelligence agents are plunged into a maze of Cold War intrigue In Paris, 1962, French intelligence chief André Devereaux and NATO intelligence chief Michael Nordstrom have uncovered Soviet plans to ship nuclear arms to Cuba. But when Devereaux reports his findings and nobody acts—and he is targeted in an assassination attempt—he soon realizes he’s tangled in a plot far greater than he first understood.

      Topaz
    • Redemption

      • 827 pages
      • 29 hours of reading
      3.9(160)Add rating

      An Irish immigrant in New Zealand fills his son, Rory, with patriotic tales. When Rory grows up, World War I is on. He joins the New Zealand corps of the British army, survives Gallipoli, becomes an officer and is transferred to Ireland to put down a rebellion. One day his father's tales catch up and Rory switches sides. By the author of Trinity.

      Redemption
    • Mitla Pass

      • 495 pages
      • 18 hours of reading
      3.9(3594)Add rating

      Writer Gideon Zadok leaves the glitter of Hollywood for the newly created State of Israel, where he learns much about himself and love on a dangerous military operation he covers as a war correspondent.

      Mitla Pass