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About the Author

Writer Leon Uris was born in Baltimore on August 3, 1924. He dropped out of school to join the Marines during World War II, but later returned to attend Baltimore City College. His first novel, Battle Cry (1953), was based on his time as a marine. He followed it with a series of New York Times show more bestsellers, including The Angry Hills, Exodus, Topaz, and Trinity. QB VII was adapted into a TV mini-series starring Ben Gazzara and Anthony Hopkins. Uris has also written non-fiction (including Ireland: A Terrible Beauty and Jerusalem: Song of Songs) and screenplays (Battle Cry and Gunfight at the O. K. Corral). He has won the John F. Kennedy Memorial Award from the Irish-American Society and the Scopus Award from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Series

Trinity and Redemption

Works by Leon Uris

Popular Recent

Exodus (1958) 4,203 copies

Trinity (1976) 3,045 copies

Mila 18 (1961) 1,882 copies

QB VII (1970) 1,749 copies

The Haj (1984) 1,634 copies

Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin (1963) 1,036 copies

Topaz (1963) 881 copies

Battle Cry (1953) 875 copies

Redemption (1995) 865 copies

Mitla Pass (1988) 776 copies

A God in Ruins (1999) 595 copies

The Angry Hills (1955) 432 copies

O'Hara's Choice (2003) 415 copies

Ireland: A Terrible Beauty (1975) 342 copies

Jerusalem: Song of Songs: A Passionate History of a Unique and Inspiring City (1981) 132 copies

Exodus [1960 film] (1960) — Writer — 113 copies

Exodus Revisited (1960) 100 copies

Strike Zone (1967) 80 copies

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral [1957 film] (1957) — Screenwriter — 55 copies

Exodus; Mila 18; QB VII (1984) 33 copies

Exodus: Volume Two (1958) 19 copies

QB VII [1974 TV mini series] (1993) — Original book — 17 copies

Exodus: Volume One (1971) 16 copies

Trinity, Part 1 of 2 (1976) 14 copies

Battle Cry [1955 film] (1955) — Original novel/Screenwriter — 12 copies

The Haj, Part 1 of 2 (1984) 7 copies

Mila 18: Volume Two (1979) 6 copies

Trinity, Part 2 of 2 (1976) 6 copies

QB VII + Topaz (1979) 5 copies

The Haj, Part 2 of 2 (1984) 5 copies

Redemption Part 1 of 2 (1995) 4 copies

[unidentified works] 3 copies

Exodus and QB VII: Two Leon Uris Classics (2013) 3 copies

Redemption Part 2 of 2 (1995) 3 copies

Mila 18: Volume One (1979) 3 copies

Topaz / Armageddon (1988) 2 copies

Milta Pass; Exodus; Mila 18 (1989) 2 copies

The Hope 1 copy

The Spy Catchers 1 copy

Rare Leon Uris EXODUS REVISITED 1962 First Paperback edition 250 Photographs Israel 1 copy

Armaghedon (2001) 1 copy

Battle Cry Novel The Marines At War by Leon Uris 1953 (1953) 1 copy

Trinity / The Haj (1984) 1 copy

The Haj by Leon Uris (1998-10-05) 1 copy

QB VII: Volume One 1 copy

Armageddon, Part 1 (1974) 1 copy

Armageddon, Part 2 1 copy

The Defection of Kuznetov 1 copy

Trinity - Três Famílias e a História da Irlanda 1 copy

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Associated Works

Great Spy Stories From Fiction (1969) — Contributor, some editions — 77 copies

Topaz [1969 film] (1969) — Original novel — 70 copies

Three Great Novels of World War II: Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener / Mister Roberts by Thomas Heggen /… (1985) 11 copies

American Men at Arms (1964) — Contributor — 10 copies

The Angry Hills [1959 film] (1959) — Original novel — 3 copies

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Uris, Leon
Legal name: Uris, Leon Marcus
Birthdate: 1924-08-03
Date of death: 2003-06-21
Burial location: Quantico National Cemetery, Quantico, Virginia, USA
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Place of death: Shelter Island, Long Island, New York, USA
Cause of death: kidney failure
Places of residence: Palestine
Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Shelter Island, New York, USA
Occupations: novelist
screenwriter
newspaper correspondent
Relationships: Uris, Jill (wife)
Organizations: United States Marine Corps (WWII)
Awards and honors: Harry and Ethel Daroff Award (1959)
National Institute of Arts and Letters Grant (1959)
California Literature Silver Medal Award (1962 ∙ for Mila 18)
California Literature Gold Medal Award (1965, for Armageddon)
Irish/American Society of New York John F. Kennedy Medal (1977)
Eire Society of Boston Gold Medal (1978) (show all 10)
State of Israel Jobotinsky medal (1980)
Concord Academy Hall fellowship (with wife, Jill Uris), (1980)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Scopus award (1981)
Honorary doctorates: University of Colorado, 1976; Santa Clara University, 1977; Wittenberg University, 1980; Lincoln College, 1985
Short biography: Leon Uris was a best-selling novelist known especially for doing deep research into his topics. He was a high school dropout who enlisted in the U.S. Marines at age 17 during World War II, serving in the South Pacific. His writing career began with short stories, and he published his first novel in 1953. Although not well appreciated by literary critics, his works were popular successes and introduced readers to many important social causes and historical events such as the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

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Mila 18 by Leon Uris

After writing "Exodus", Leon Uris produced this novel, also a description of Jewish heroism. Warsaw, capital of Polnd was the site of two uprisings against the German occupation. While the one in 1944, when the bulk of the city was finally destroted by the German army while the Russian Army sat just outside town, watching rather than assisting the Polish uprising, this work deals with the earlier uprising in 1943 when the Warsaw ghetto rose up and died fighting rather than be deported to the labour and extermination camps. The tale is compelling and well written. The Polish resistance did not aid the earlier uprising, either.… (more)

½

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DinadansFriend | 25 other reviews | May 7, 2024 |

Redemption by Leon Uris

Half of book was rehash of Trinity

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chuckcoughlin | 9 other reviews | Apr 29, 2024 |

Exodus: A Novel of Israel by Leon Uris

I desperately wanted a book that explained the foundations of Israel in historical fiction terms snd this book does so wonderfully. But it is more propaganda than historical fiction. All Arabs are smelly, backward and dishonest. All Jews are heroic with God on their side. And there are some out and out lies. There was a ship Exodus filled with Jewish refugees that was not allowed to disembark in Israel but it was not filled solely with children who were holocaust victims who went on hunger strike. This exaggeration made me doubt other claims in the book. Were the Middle East leaders all Nazi sympathisers? Did Israel really have so few arms?

That said, I learnt a lot. It’s just I want to know even more.

It was written in the fifties when the narrative was more about why Israel should exist. Nowadays everyone but HAMAS and Corbynites believes it should but we want more about how it can do so peacefully.… (more)

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