

Mila 18
Author: Leon Uris
Narrator: David de Vries
Unabridged: 21 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 04/17/2018
Categories: Fiction, Action & Adventure
Author: Leon Uris
Narrator: David de Vries
Unabridged: 21 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 04/17/2018
Categories: Fiction, Action & Adventure
Leon Uris (1924–2003) was an author of fiction, nonfiction, and screenplays whose works include numerous bestselling novels. His epic Exodus (1958) has been translated into over fifty languages. Uris’s work is notable for its focus on dramatic moments in contemporary history, including World War II and its aftermath, the birth of modern Israel, and the Cold War. Through the massive success of his novels and his skill as a storyteller, Uris has had enormous influence on popular understanding of twentieth-century history.
I grew up during World War 11 and although it was kept pretty quite by the Nazis many of us heard about what was happening to the Jewish people in Europe. I read this book when it first came out back in 1961, and I decided to read it again just this past month. This is a really powerful novel, not f......more
Mila 18 is a breathtaking account of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, by the Jewish population of Warsaw, against the plans of the Nazi regime to exterminate them. It is a great epic from the pen of one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century, Leon Uris. The Warsaw ghetto uprisings are an important s......more
I recently re-read Mila 18 while in Warsaw; of course, I went to Mila 18 and stood on the actual spot. I had first read the book when it came out in 1962. It was powerful then, even more so today. The most moving lines ... "For the first time I am proud of being a Jew" ... "you must survive and be p......more
This began like one of those 1980s epic TV series when the subject matter is fascinating but the script and acting awful. The author gets carried away with every character's back story and he shows us in superfluous and often syrupy detail scenes that could have been told in a sentence or two. Howev......more
Leon Uris books are written in a style that takes history and historical characters and fictionalizes events through these made-up composite characters in a very entertaining, personalized and informative manner. Not great literature, however, his books are all page-turners and can be very emotional......more