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Leon Uris
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
4) Exodus
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Physical Desc
626 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of the birth of the nation of Israel and its struggle for existence told through the eyes of an American nurse and an Israeli freedom fighter.
6) Battle cry
Author
Physical Desc
694 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows the fortunes of a U.S. Marine outfit from boot camp to Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and elsewhere in the Pacific during World War II.
7) Mila 18
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Physical Desc
563 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Recounts the resistance of the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto against the Nazis.
8) Topaz
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
American CIA agent learns of Cuban missiles and a NATO spy by the code name of TOPAZ from a defecting Russian.
9) Exodus
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 208 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus, blockaded in a Cyprus harbor by British warships. The film...