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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR LEON URIS
Leon Uris (1924–2003) was an American novelist. Having run away from home at age seventeen, a month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, to join the Marine Corps, he based several of his novels on his own experiences in the marines. His novels include Battle Cry and O’Hara’s Choice, as well as the bestsellers Redemption, Trinity, Exodus, QB VII, and Topaz, among others.
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—USA Today
From the internationally acclaimed author who enthralled the world with Exodus, Battle Cry, and other classics of twentieth-century fiction comes a sweeping and powerful epic adventure. Leon Uris captures the “terrible beauty” of Ireland during its long and bloody struggle for freedom. It is the electrifying story of an idealistic young Catholic rebel and the valiant and beautiful Protestant girl who defied her heritage to join his cause. It is a tale of love and danger, of triumph at an unthinkable cost—a magnificent portrait of a people divided by class, faith, and prejudice. It is an unforgettable saga of the fires that devastated a majestic land—and the unquenchable flames that burn in the human heart.
AVAILABLE 9/6/22
Fiction / Classics (FIC004000) • Unabridged • Book #etdj Hardcover 9798200951741 $31.99 Large Print HC 9798200911523 $TBD Paperback 9798200724345 $21.99 “The story has a kind of relentless power, based on the real tragedy of Ireland, and Uris’s achievement is that he has neither cheapened nor trivalized that tragedy.”
—New York Times Book Review
Just as World War II threatens to break out, Mike Morrison arrives in Greece to collect his late wife’s inheritance. Hoping to quickly finish his business and leave before German troops invade, Morrison’s plans are derailed when he receives a letter listing the names of Greek patriots pretending to be German collaborators, a list Nazi strategists desperately need. With the outcome of the war hinging on Morrison’s ability to protect the letter, he embarks on an adventure across Greece in an effort to evade Nazi troops and keep the letter from falling into enemy hands. Based on the diaries of Leon Uris’s uncle, this action-packed thriller will keep listeners in suspense until the very end. A 1959 film adaptation starred Robert Mitchum and Stanley Baker.
AVAILABLE 9/6/22
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“Uris uses history as the raw material for legend.” —Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin on Trinity
At the end of World War II, American army officer Captain Sean O’Sullivan is commissioned with rebuilding Berlin. Reeling from the death of his brothers at German hands and faced with the direct horrors of the Holocaust, O’Sullivan struggles against his animosity toward the nation he is helping restore. Meanwhile, Soviet forces blockade Germany in a bid for power, and the Western Allies must unite to prevent a communist takeover. When the airlift begins, the Allies find their deepest convictions tested as they fight against a threat even more dangerous than Hitler. Meticulously researched, this New York Times bestselling novel gives a historically accurate account of the early days of the Cold War and the fight for German redemption.
AVAILABLE 9/6/22
LARGE PRINT AVAILABLE 10/11/22 Fiction / Classics (FIC004000) • Unabridged • Book #etdc Large Print HC 9798200924059 $37.99 Paperback 9798200724277 $20.99 “A vast panorama of people and places... dramatic moment after dramatic moment in a throbbing tempo.”
Gideon Zadok arrives in Israel with every intention to research a new book, mend a broken marriage, and improve his dysfunctional family. But as political tensions escalate and his family is evacuated, Zadok asks to follow Israeli paratroopers to secure Mitla Pass and finds himself in the midst of one of the largest global crises of the twentieth century. A sweeping novel of love, passion, and freedom, Mitla Pass stands as an epic look at modern Middle Eastern history and is quite possibly Uris’s most autobiographical work.
AVAILABLE 10/4/22
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—Library Journal
A #1 New York Times bestseller, Topaz follows French intelligence chief André Devereaux and NATO intelligence chief Michael Nordstrom. On the eve of the Cuban Missile Crisis in Paris, 1962, Devereaux and Nordstrom uncover Soviet plans to ship nuclear arms. But when nobody acts after sharing his findings, Devereaux becomes the target of an assassination attempt and soon realizes the plot extends far beyond Cuba—and himself. A thrilling and well-placed novel filled with Cold War intrigue, Topaz features two agents on a journey around the world to save NATO and themselves.
AVAILABLE 10/4/22
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—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, praise for the author
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 realizm 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.
AVAILABLE 10/4/22
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—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on Battle Cry
Israel is a land of contrasts—of modern hotels and ancient olive trees; of young girls in slacks and elders with traditional beards. It is a country of harsh desert, lush farmland, sandy beaches, and sun-dappled seas. Israel is the common homeland of the Jew, the Christian, and the Muslim. It is a nation with a living history, a memory of violence and pain, a hope for the future, and a promise in its people. In Exodus Revisited, Leon Uris returns to the scene of his famous bestselling novel, Exodus, which has sold over five million copleis. With power, compassion, and love, he writes a revealing commentary to accompany the sensitive and haunting photographs of Dimitrios Harissiadis.
AVAILABLE 11/1/22
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“A tale packed with romance and adventure.”
JILL & LEON URIS
• #1 New York Times bestselling author • National media coverage for this classic reissue • Showcase at bookseller and library trade shows • Digital and print advertisements • Social media promotion and giveaways • Internationally acclaimed novelist
Uris earned enormous praise from major publications, with the Denver
Post calling him “the best storyteller of his generation” • Will appeal to fans of James A.
Michener and James Clavell • Other backlist reissues by Uris coming from Blackstone
IRELAND
A Terrible Beauty
The story of Ireland, the Irish, and the Troubles, told by Leon Uris and Jill Uris Jill and Leon Uris came to Ireland looking for answers. Why has Ireland been bled by one internal war after another? How can one country contain such greatness and grief? What they discovered was more than the Ireland of peat fires and pubs, of fabled Irish wit and the haunts of the banshees. What they found was a people— trapped in mutual mistrusts, but with a a courage and kindness that brought them through centuries of bitter occupation and civil dissension, in a land as complexly beautiful as the people themselves. This then is the Urises’ “love song” to the Irish and to Ireland.
AVAILABLE 11/1/22
History / Europe / Ireland (HIS018000) Unabridged • Book #etdh Paperback 9798200724321 $18.99
JERUSALEM
Song of Songs A magnificent historical tribute to the city of Jerusalem encompasses the five turbulent millennia of its history, and is accompanied by numerous photographs that illuminate every facet of the amazing city.
AVAILABLE 11/1/22
History / Middle East / Israel & Palestine (HIS019000) Unabridged • Book #etdi Paperback 9798200724338 $18.99
