"Passionate summary of the inhuman treatment of the Jewish people in Europe, of the exodus in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to Palestine, and of the triumphant founding of the new Israel" (The New York Times). Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies-the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Based on Leon Uris novel, this historical epic provides a dramatic backstory to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, in the aftermath of World War II. Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon-the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some rubbing to the extremities. He is a co-author of five other books and has penned scores of historical articles and book reviews in various learned journals, such as The Journal of Contemporary History, Slavic Review, The Russian Review, German Studies Review and Journal of Military History. He was the author of seven books, the most recent of which was War Crimes, Genocide, and the Law: Historical Perspective, published in 2009. He was twice a Fulbright scholar in Germany in 03. Arnold Krammer Shalom Leon Uris." The recipient, Arnold Krammer was a historian who specialized in German and United States history and a professor at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to historian Arnold Krammer, "For Dr. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. First edition, early printing of the authorâ s magnum opus. Leon Marcus Uris (AugJune 21, 2003) was an American novelist, known for his historical fiction and the deep research that went into his novels.
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