Exodus and QB VII — Leon Uris

Two classics by acclaimed writer Leon Uris, about the epic saga of Israel's earliest days and the people who fought to make it their home, and a writer who battles a doctor accused of committing atrocities during World War II

"The Exodus" was just one ship among many that carried survivors of the Holocaust to Palestine to establish a new nation. But the path that Jewish immigrants took to enter British-controlled Palestine was a difficult one, fraught with danger and political intrigue.

Uris's blockbuster novel traces the lives of the men and women who brave British naval blockades to help Israel come into being, from Ari Ben Canaan, who works tirelessly to smuggle in settlers, to Kitty Fremont, an American nurse drawn into a vast, tragic history. Weaving together fact and fiction, history and dramatic storylines, "Exodus" stands today as one of the most influential narratives of the founding of the State of Israel.

In "QB VII," Abe Cady, a journalist and screenwriter, produces the definitive account of the Holocaust just after World War II. But Polish doctor Adam Kelno, who was pressed into service in a notorious concentration camp, sues Cady for his book's claim that the doctor conducted terrible experiments on camp inmates. The libel trial that follows tears open old wounds, disrupts lives, and becomes a battle for justice on behalf of tens of thousands of lost and damaged souls.