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This book should be republished. I sought a hard copy and could only find something very old, no recent edition. The parallels between those times and today's political correctness Nazis are sobering. To paraphrase, " those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it". What is happening today does not reach the level of the atrocities of the WW2 Nazis but they didn't get there overnight. The rise of the third Reich started years before with control of thought through control of language. The defeat of freedom and liberty is not brought about by an avalanche, but rather by an erosion of thought and morality. Political correctness is just such an erosion. Today's enforcers of pure thought and language are tomorrows storm troopers. .As some of the characters in the book illustrate, some refused to believe the totality of the evil of the thought police even when it was pounding on their door. Books like this should be revived and studied for freedom is such a fragile commodity.


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Mila 18 A Novel Leon Uris Books Reviews

Although I have researched and studied the Holocaust for many years, I had not read Leon Uris’ “Mila 18” until now. The book is an excellent retelling of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during World War II, with memorable characters and vivid descriptions of events that took place before and during the uprising.
The Jewish characters and the Poles who helped them were believable and through Uris’ descriptions and I felt their pain as they fought their oppressors. The German characters were sufficiently evil and there was no question that I despised them and everything they stood for.
It is especially interesting to get know to the strengths and weaknesses of the Jewish and Polish characters. Andrei Androfski, the Jew who is a leader in the uprising, is a complicated man whose weaknesses are outweighed by his bravery. Chris de Monti, an American-Italian journalist, becomes brave enough to fulfill his mission of getting diaries of the Jews in the ghetto to the outside world.
As I watched the uprising unfold, I gained a better understanding of the human side of the tragedy and what the fighters faced. Not only are the Germans the enemy, but Jewish collaborators make the characters more determined to fight to the death.
After 70 years, it is still perplexing why the people of the world, even after hearing of the horrors in Warsaw and Poland, did nothing to help people who were being annihilated. Uris does not try to address the “whys,” but expertly tells the story of those who were abandoned and chose to fight.
One simply does not read a novel by famed author, Leon Uris, but rather one becomes immersed in the story, the characters, the descriptions, the plot. Uris deftly builds the figures, Jewish, German and Christian who interact in amazingly realistic scenes in the WW II novel. As Uris works a comprehensive history of the war into the plot, he simultaneously expands the characters development into seemingly, real beings, both likeable and unlikeable.
Uris describes the strangulation of Jewish movement in Poland and later, in Western Europe. Uris realistically depicts the enclosure of the Ghetto, the Jewish Council, tasked with unthinkable responsibilities, the many different factions in the Jewish Community, and through starvation, disease and massive deportations, the inevitable weakening of the Jews.
However, even in the dreariness of the Ghetto, love and faith hold dear. In an amazing historic battle against unbelievable odds, the outnumbered, out armed and seriously starved Ghetto Fighters fight for their families, for each other, and for those so unjustly ripped from their lives and murdered by the Germans.
A novel of excellence. Leon Uris, one of America’s great authors of a plethora of historic novels, passed away in 2003.
Mila 18 is an epic novel by Leon Uris. Leon painstakingly researched the Warsaw Ghetto and the Uprising and the facts are historically correct. However, he used his imagination as a fiction writer to create the characters and their conversations and movements. Some of the characters are real and were actually in the Ghetto and did what he says they did. Rosenblum, for instance, did write a journal about what was going on in the Ghetto and he did bury writings, diaries, histories, etc. in milk cans and other canisters at various spots in Warsaw. Some were actually retrieved; but some are still lost. This is not a book to be read in one sitting or even two. It is a book to be savored and thought about as you are reading. Although not necessary, knowing something of the history of the Warsaw ghetto, the Uprising, and the Nazis, it does help to understand the actions of the characters better.
In addition to being a story about the ghetto and the uprising, an attempt to understand how different people react to the same circumstances. He shows how and tells why some Jews became collaborators and “betrayed” their own, sometimes even their own families. As it begins before WWII, you see how those who considered themselves not to be Jews were drawn into helping the Nazis. It explains how the Jewish ruling group in the Ghetto came about and how each member dealt with what he had to do.
His book also shows how women were controlled by their husbands and fathers prior to WWII and how that changed as the war continues. Some were forced by circumstances to break out of the mold and become independent young women. Rachael, for example, defied her father by living with Wolf. He refused to allow the marriage by himself and made sure the other Jews knew he did not condone marriage thus leaving them to live together in “sin”. What is interesting is that Rachael does have the consent of her mother to do this. Deborah was in an arranged marriage and found herself basically a slave to her husband. She met Christopher de Monti before the war and had an affair with him. When given a chance to leave the Ghetto with Christopher, she refused and stayed with her children in the Ghetto. Christopher, an Italian by passport, refused to leave since he couldn’t leave Deborah even though he doesn’t see her anymore. Leon Uris delves into changes in social standards as he writes.
The book is very good and very well written. It is another book that brings history to life.
This book should be republished. I sought a hard copy and could only find something very old, no recent edition. The parallels between those times and today's political correctness Nazis are sobering. To paraphrase, " those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it". What is happening today does not reach the level of the atrocities of the WW2 Nazis but they didn't get there overnight. The rise of the third Reich started years before with control of thought through control of language. The defeat of freedom and liberty is not brought about by an avalanche, but rather by an erosion of thought and morality. Political correctness is just such an erosion. Today's enforcers of pure thought and language are tomorrows storm troopers. .As some of the characters in the book illustrate, some refused to believe the totality of the evil of the thought police even when it was pounding on their door. Books like this should be revived and studied for freedom is such a fragile commodity.