Strike Zone
by William Stevenson, Leon Uris
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Interesting, dramatic, informative. Numerous photos were included. The maps in this thin paperback were adequate, but I found myself referring to online maps also, for additional detail. Now I'd like to learn more history of Israel and the Middle East.
Adquirido em Set/1995
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William Stevenson was a distinguished journalist & war correspondent. (Bowker Author Biography)
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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 bestsellers, including The Angry Hills, Exodus, Topaz, show more 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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- Canonical title
- Strike Zone
- Original title
- Strike Zone
- Original publication date
- 1967-07
- First words
- The clocks stopped in Israel on Monday, June 5, 1967, and they started again a Week later.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But it took a week to acheive this miracle below my wings by a natural way, surely ten years was not too long to wait for a miracle.
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 956.94 — History & geography History of Asia Middle East Asia: Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan The Levant Israel and Palestine
- LCC
- DS127 .S7 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia Israel (Palestine). The Jews History
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