Leon Uris | Historical Fiction

Exodus by Leon Uris

Name: Exodus by Leon Uris
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Exodus by Leon Uris

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Book Specifications

Format: Paperback
Condition: Acceptable
Publisher: Bantam Books (1965)
Length: 599 pages
Genre: Historical Fiction
OCLC: 868195080

Condition Note: Acceptable Reading Copy: Complete and fully readable text. Notes: Previous owner's details inside front cover.

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Smuggling Jewish War Refugees Past British Blockades to Forge the State of Israel

Set in 1947 amid British detention camps on Cyprus, Leon Uris’s historical novel traces the clandestine migration of Holocaust survivors to Mandatory Palestine. Mossad LeAliyah Bet operative Ari Ben Canaan poses as a British officer to orchestrate the escape of 611 refugee children aboard an impounded cargo vessel rechristened the Exodus. When the Royal Navy blockades Famagusta harbor, the passengers launch a high-stakes hunger strike that pushes the displaced persons crisis onto the international stage.

The story follows Kitty Fremont, a widowed American nurse volunteering in the camps; Karen Hansen Clement, a displaced teenager searching for her family; and Dov Landau, an embittered survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto and Auschwitz who channels his trauma into the militant underground. As the British mandate ends and neighboring nations mobilize, Uris documents the United Nations partition vote, kibbutz border skirmishes, and the combat operations of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Why You’ll Love This Book

Leon Uris combines military operations, United Nations diplomacy, and firsthand accounts of post-war survival. Adapted into Otto Preminger's 1960 feature film starring Paul Newman, this 1958 novel is a strong match for readers of mid-century historical sagas by Herman Wouk, James A. Michener, and Ken Follett.

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