Leon Uris
American writer (Baltimore, August 3, 1924 – Shelter Island, New York, June 21, 2003), participated in II. World War II as a marine on the Pacific battlefield; after the war he worked as a journalist. In his first novels, he thematized the war experience (Battle Cry, 1953; The Angry Hills, 1955). His most famous novels are about recent historical events: about the events surrounding the founding of the State of Israel and after it (Exodus, 1958), about the Warsaw Ghetto and the anti-German uprising (Mila 18, 1960), about the Irish struggle for independence (Trinity, 1976 ) and other. He wrote scripts for several films (eg Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, 1957, directed by John Sturges).
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Armageddon 1
A 1963 novel by Leon Uris about Berlin and Germany after World War II. The novel begins in London during World War II and goes up to the occupation of Berlin by the Four Powers and the Soviet land blockade of the western districts of the city.
Armageddon 2
A 1963 novel by Leon Uris about Berlin and Germany after World War II. The novel begins in London during World War II and goes up to the occupation of Berlin by the Four Powers and the Soviet land blockade of the western districts of the city.
Exodus 1
Exodus is a novel about the founding of the state of Israel that begins with a brief retelling of the voyage of the immigrant ship Exodus from 1947 and describes the histories of various main characters and the connection of their personal lives with the
Exodus 2
Exodus is a novel about the founding of the state of Israel that begins with a brief retelling of the voyage of the immigrant ship Exodus from 1947 and describes the histories of various main characters and the connection of their personal lives with the
Mila 18
Mila 18 is a novel about the legendary uprising in the Warsaw ghetto. To write the novel, Uris spent years studying archival materials, visiting the places where the events took place and talking to survivors of the ghetto...
Mila 18
Odsustvo do buđenja 1
Battle Cry is a 1953 novel by American writer Leon Uris. Many of the events in the book are based on Uris's own World War II experience with the 6th Marine Regiment.
Odsustvo do buđenja 2
Battle Cry is a 1953 novel by American writer Leon Uris. Many of the events in the book are based on Uris's own World War II experience with the 6th Marine Regiment.
QB VII
QB VII is a dramatic courtroom novel that highlights the events leading up to the libel trial in four parts. The novel was Uris' second consecutive #1 New York Times bestseller and third overall.
Topaz
Topaz is a Cold War suspense novel by Leon Uris, published in 1967 by McGraw-Hill. The novel spent one week atop The New York Times Best Seller List, and was Uris's first New York Times number-one bestseller since Exodus in 1959.