Review Of Mila 18 By Leon Uris

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famous battles on the Pacific front. Shortly after the war he began to pursue a career as a writer. His first novel, Battle Cry (1953), was based on his own personal experiences as a Marine during the war. The book was well received and several years later turned into a movie (1955). In 1956, Leon Uris was a war correspondent covering the Arab-Israeli conflict. Stemming from this experience he wrote his most famous work Exodus (1956) which became a huge international best seller. It was the story of the Jewish migration to Palestine following the end of World War II and the subsequent creation of the state of Israel. His research in writing Exodus, became the inspiration for Mila 18. Leon heard extensively of the horrors of concentration camps, the holocaust, and the heart-wrenching stories of individual survival. World War II was a tragedy for the Jewish people and what often seemingly appeared to be an acquiescence of their fate. The Warsaw uprising countered that myth. ...

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The largest of these ghettos was Warsaw where all 22 entrances were sealed. The ghetto became a prison within the city.
For the residents, and the characters depicted in the novel, the initial year was time of great anxiety. Many were pillars in the community, some were decorated heroes of the first world war. Most found it difficult, if not unimaginable, to believe what terror lay ahead. The Jewish leadership was organized into a committee to manage the activities of the ghetto and to act as a liaison with their German occupiers. Conditions worsened with each passing week. Food and housing were in short supply, people were dying. The protagonist in the novel, Andrei Androfski, is ...

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