Il romanzo dell’epopea che condusse alla nascita di Israele, ma anche della lacerante questione palestinese. Estate 1947, a bordo della nave Exodus l’attivista Arì Ben Canaan, l’infermiera americana Kitty Fremont e gli adolescenti Dov Landau e Karen Clemens, insieme con tanti altri giovani sopravvissuti alla Shoah, vanno incontro al loro destino: contribuire alla creazione dello stato ebraico e alla riscossa di un popolo. Ma fino a che punto si può sacrificare la propria esistenza in nome ...

A presidential candidate is unaware he holds a secret that could endanger him and his country in this explosive political novel."Great reading. . . . Uris mixes politics, history, love and people's passions into yet another bestseller. . . . Compelling." — Tulsa WorldSpanning the decades from World War II to the 2008 presidential campaign, A God in Ruins is the riveting story of Quinn Patrick O'Connell, an honest, principled...

Fifty years after his first novel, Battle Cry, took the world by storm, Leon Uris returns to the topic that first inspired him to write books that captivate, educate, and thrill -- the Marine Corps.In the years following the Civil War, first-generation Irish-American Zachary O'Hara, son of a legendary Marine and a force of a man in his own right, finds himself playing a critical role in the very future of the Marines. If he can persuade the Secretary of the Navy that the Marines ar...

The first biography of the massively popular author of Exodus and Trinity, who "was as feisty as any of his fictional creations" ( Publishers Weekly).As the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Exodus, Mila 18, QB VII, and Trinity, Leon Uris blazed a path to celebrity with books that readers couldn't put down. Uris's thirteen novels sold millions of copies, appeared in fifty languages, and w...

Leon Uris’s beloved Irish classicFrom the acclaimed author who enthralled the world with Exodus, Battle Cry, QB VII, Topaz, and other beloved classics of twentieth-century fiction comes a sweeping and powerful epic adventure that captures the “terrible beauty” of Ireland during its long and bloody struggle for freedom. It is the electrifying story of an idealistic young Catholic rebel and the valiant and beautiful Protestant girl...

“Passionate summary of the inhuman treatment of the Jewish people in Europe, of the exodus in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to Palestine, and of the triumphant founding of the new Israel.”—The New York TimesExodus 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 ear...

At the end of World War II, American army officer Captain Sean O’Sullivan is commissioned with rebuilding Berlin. Reeling from the death of his brothers at German hands and faced with the direct horrors of the Holocaust, O’Sullivan struggles against his animosity towards the nation he is helping restore. Meanwhile, Soviet forces blockade Germany in a bid for power, and the Western Allies must unite to prevent a communist takeover. When the airlift begins, the Allies find their deepest conv...

Battle Cry is the riveting Marine epic by the bestselling author of such classics as Trinity and ExodusOriginally 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...

Palæstinenseren Ibrahim al-Soukori er en respekteret mand i landsbyen Tabah. Det er med udgangspunkt i Ibrahims familie, at Leon Uris skildrer Palæstina og det arabiske folks liv i første halvdel af det 20. århundrede. Det traditionsbundne samfund er både påvirket af den britiske kolonisering og af jødiske flygtninge fra det krigshærgede Europa. Det skaber konfliktfulde sammenstød mellem den muslimske befolkning og de jødiske nybyggere, men også nye forbindelser. I takt med at antisemitism...

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 story of one of the most heroic struggles of modern times.

Leon Uris' historiske bestseller-roman ”Exodus” handler om tilblivelsen af Staten Israel og tager afsæt i den storstilede indsmugling af jødiske flygtninge fra Cypern til Palæstina med skibet SS Exodus i 1947.I romanen er det vennerne Ari Ben Canaan og David Ben Ami der iværksætter redningsaktionen. Det lykkes i første omgang at få de illegale jødiske flygtninge ombord på Exodus, men det britiske militær afslører lasten og tilbageholder skibet i havnebyen Farmagusta. Herfra udspill...