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Leon Uris

    3 agosto 1924 – 21 giugno 2003

    Leon Uris è stato un romanziere americano rinomato per la sua profonda ricerca e la sua avvincente narrativa storica. Le sue narrazioni si sono spesso addentrate in momenti storici cruciali, dalle feroci battaglie del teatro del Pacifico all'intricata fondazione dello stato di Israele e alla lotta dell'Irlanda per l'indipendenza. Uris possedeva uno stile distintivo, caratterizzato da rappresentazioni meticolosamente dettagliate di eventi storici e delle vite delle persone comuni intrappolate in essi. La sua capacità di trasportare i lettori nel passato, illuminando complesse narrazioni storiche con vivide esperienze umane, ha consolidato la sua reputazione di maestro narratore.

    Leon Uris
    Exodus
    Battle Cry
    Armaghedon
    QBVII
    Mitla Pass
    Mila 18
    • Armaghedon

      L'epopea di Berlino tra apocalisse e guerra fredda

      • 661pagine
      • 24 ore di lettura
      Armaghedon
    • Battle Cry is the riveting Marine epic by the bestselling author of such classics as Trinity and Exodus. Originally published in 1953, Leon Uris's Battle Cry is the raw and exciting story of men at war from a legendary American author. This is the story of enlisted men – Marines – at the beginning of World War II. They are a rough–and–ready tangle of guys from America's cities and farms and reservations. Led by a tough veteran sergeant, these soldiers band together to emerge as part of one of the most elite fighting forces in the world. With staggering realism and detail, we follow them into intense battles – Guadalcanal and Tarawa – and through exceptional moments of camaraderie and bravery. Battle Cry does not extol the glories of war, but proves itself to be one of the greatest war stories of all time.

      Battle Cry
    • Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury: the story of an American nurse, an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era.

      Exodus
    • Trinity

      • 890pagine
      • 32 ore di lettura

      Ever since the publication of Battle Cry more than thirty years ago, Leon Uris has continued to write bestselling novels. Each displays all of the author's skill, for he is a writer at his best when the subject seems almost too big to handle. One of the most popular storytellers of the twentieth century, more than 5,500,000 copies of his novels have been sold in Corgi alone. In Trinity, he writes passionately about the tragedy of Ireland - from the famine of the 1840s to the Easter Rising of 1916, a powerful and stirring novel about the loves and hates, the defeats and triumphs of three families - a terrible and beautiful drama spanning more than half a century.

      Trinity
    • In Queen’s Bench Courtroom Number Seven, famous author Abraham Cady stands trial. In his book The Holocaust—born of the terrible revelation that the Jadwiga Concentration Camp was the site of his family’s extermination—Cady shook the consciousness of the human race. He also  named eminent surgeon Sir Adam Kelno as one of Jadwiga’s most sadistic inmate/doctors. Kelno has denied this and brought furious charges. Now unfolds Leon Uris’s riveting courtroom drama—one of the great fictional trials of the century.

      QB VII
    • The Haj

      • 525pagine
      • 19 ore di lettura

      Leon Uris retums to the land of his acclaimed  best-seller Exodus for an epic  story of hate and love, vengeance and forgiveness and  forgiveness. The Middle East is the powerful  setting for this sweeping tale of a land where revenge  is sacred and hatred noble. Where an Arab ruler  tries to save his people from destruction but  cannot save them from themselves. When violence  spreads like a plague across the lands of  Palestine--this is the time of The  Haj.

      The Haj