Leon Uris was one of the greatest novelists that ever lived. From his 1st novel, Battle Cry (based on his experiences as a US Marine at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and other battles in the Pacific theatre of Word War 2) thru Trinity (a tragic history of the conflict in Ireland, spanning 5 hundred years to 1923 when England "partitioned" the nation into two seperate entities, North Ireland and
Ulster) The Haj, (a novel of the conflict in Palestine that is unique as it is written from the view of a Palestinian, but Uris was a Jew) to his final work,
O'Hara's Choice, a posthumous novel, which centers on Marines who fought in the Civil War and clarifies how their spirit lives on.
Battle Cry, 1953
The Angry Hills, 1955
Exodus, 1958
Exodus Revisited, 1960 (GB title: In the Steps of Exodus)
Mila 18, 1961
Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin, 1963
Topaz, 1967
The Third Temple (with Strike Zion by William Stevenson), 1967
QB VII, 1970
Ireland, A Terrible Beauty, 1975 (with Jill Uris)
Trinity, 1976
Jerusalem: A Song of Songs, 1981 (with Jill Uris)
The Haj, 1984
Mitla Pass, 1988
Redemption, 1995
A God in Ruins, 1999
O'Hara's Choice, 2003
Links:
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/uris.htm
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/u/leon-uris/trinity.htm
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/uris.html
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/619889/Leon-Uris
