Leon Uris

Exodus on yhdysvaltalaisen Leon Urisin vuonna 1958 julkaistu romaani, joka kertoo Israelin valtion synnystä. Romaanin nimi pohjautuu osittain samannimiseen juutalaispakolaisia Palestiinaan kuljettaneen Exodus-laivan tarinaan. Kirjasta on vuonna 1960 tehty samanniminen elokuvasovitus.

Kolmiyhteys on Leon Urisin vuonna 1976 julkaisema kirja. Kirja kertoo Irlannin kamppailusta itsenäisyyden saamiseksi ja saaren yhdistämiseksi vuosien 1840 ja 1916 välillä eri perheiden, kuten katolisten Larkinien ja O'Neillien sekä protestanttisten Hubblejen ja MacLeodien, näkökulmasta. Takaumissa kerrotaan myös …

Mila 18 is a novel by Leon Uris set in German-occupied Warsaw, Poland, before and during World War II. Mila 18 debuted at #7 on The New York Times Best Seller List and peaked at #2 in August 1961. Leon Uris's work, based on real events, covers the Nazi occupation of Poland and the atrocities of systematically …

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 …

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 …

Battle Cry is a novel by American writer Leon Uris, published in 1953. Many of the events in the book are based on Uris's own World War II experience with the 6th Marine Regiment. The story is largely told in first person from the viewpoint of the Battalion Communications Chief, "Mac," although it frequently shifts to …

Armageddon, or Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin, is a novel by Leon Uris about post-World War II Berlin and Germany. The novel starts in London during WWII, and goes through to the Four Power occupation of Berlin and the Soviet blockade by land of the city's western boroughs. The description of the Berlin Airlift is …

Redemption is a novel by author Leon Uris. It is a sequel to his epic 1976 book, Trinity. Set mainly in the first half of the twentieth century in the years leading to the Irish Easter Rising, it tells the stories of the Irish revolutionary Conor Larkin's family, his brothers Liam and Dary, and Liam's son Rory. After …

Topaz is a Cold War suspense novel by Leon Uris, published in 1967 by McGraw-Hill. Topaz is one of only a handful of novels to have spent just one week at the number-one position on The New York Times Best Seller List for adult fiction, and was Uris's first New York Times number-one bestseller since Exodus in 1959. …

Mitla Pass is a novel written by the American novelist Leon Uris. Gideon Zadok is an American author who is to follow an airborne team to secure the Mitla Pass during the Suez Crisis and thereby becomes involved in the Mitla incident when colonel Zechariah decides to capture it despite other orders. During the course …