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Missed this literary passing. Just read it in Time. I found Leon Uris's Mila 18, about the Warsaw ghetto uprising, one of the most poignant, haunting, and stirring reads of my young life (I read it at 14). I also really enjoyed one of his lesser known works, Topaz. Of course, Battle Cry and Exodus are among his many noted tomes.
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This curious little word-thingy from an AP obit-tribute to Uris today:
>[Uris's] "Mila 18" (1960) unintentional influence on both American publishing and American slang: Its title led a rival publisher to change the name of an upcoming novel, by a then-unknown Joseph Heller, from "Catch-18" to "Catch-22".<
I did not know that.
BTW, Uris was also noted for his epic Irish study, "Trinity."
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