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| Author: Leon Uris |
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It was a time of crisis, a time of tragedy--and a time of transcendent courage and determination. Leon Uris's blazing 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 of one of the most heroic struggles of modern times. |
Author Bio
Leon Uris
Uris was educated in Baltimore and Philadelphia, then enlisted in the Marines in 1942, when he was 18. He served until 1946, and married a fellow marine, Sgt. Betty Beck (whom he later divorced, after three children). Uris began to write after the war, producing his first novel, BATTLE CRY, in 1953, which established him as a successful popular writer. He also wrote a number of screenplays, including the 1955 script for BATTLE CRY and such classics as GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL. In 1958, his novel EXODUS, a monumental work about the emergence of Israel, was published to tremendous acclaim, and also made into a successful movie. (Most of Uris's novels, in fact, have been filmed.) He has written frequently about Zionism and other Jewish themes, but he has also written sagas of the Irish and their troubles, including a photographic essay, IRELAND: A TERRIBLE BEAUTY, with his third wife, a photographer.
New York Times
"A great human experience. How the Warsaw Jews lived and how they died of starvation, execution, and mass murder before the revolt broke out, how they differed among themselves, how they loved and hated and how they changed under the fearful pressures of terror and imminent death--all this is 'Mila 18.' It is deeply moving, powerful, stirring."
"A great human experience. How the Warsaw Jews lived and how they died of starvation, execution, and mass murder before the revolt broke out, how they differed among themselves, how they loved and hated and how they changed under the fearful pressures of terror and imminent death--all this is 'Mila 18.' It is deeply moving, powerful, stirring."
