Better to die fighting...
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A favorite book of mine in my teens was Mila 18, the story of events leading up to and including the Uprising. It is, to use that awful non-word, unputdownable.
Kirkus: "[Uris] has used all of his great gift of story telling to carry the great sweep from August-prior to German invasion of Poland- through the final escape of a mere handful of the freedom fighters from the holocaust that ended the month long defense of the Ghetto. He has tapped primary sources of notes kept at the time and held in the Ghetto Fighters House International Museum; he has interviewed individual survivors of the Ghetto Fighters' Kibbutz in Israel and the Survivors' Association; he has had access to the archives in Jerusalem and elsewhere. And- as he did in Exodus — he has brought history alive in what is indubitably fictionized form, but with the breath of life in the telling."
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Interesting story. I will have to read up on it.
