Mitla Pass

by Leon Uris

1988 · 495 pages

jewish families
jews
emigration and immigration
immigrants
israel
historical fiction

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About this book

A sweeping novel of love, passion, and freedom, Mitla Pass stands as an epic look at modern Middle Eastern history and is quite possibly Uris’s most autobiographical work.

Gideon Zadok arrives in Israel with every intention to research a new book, mend a broken marriage, and improve his dysfunctional family. But as political tensions escalate and his family is evacuated, Zadok asks to follow Israeli paratroopers to secure Mitla Pass and finds himself in the midst of one of the largest global crises of the twentieth century.

Quotes by Leon Uris

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A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.
I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless.
Research to me is as important, or more important, than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.