Mitla Pass - Leon Uris [203]
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Part One: Geronimo!
Tel Aviv, October 20, 1956, D Day Minus Nine
Gideon, Herzlia, Israel, October 29, 1956, D Day, H Hour Minus Nine
Val, Herzlia, Israel, October 10, 1956
Gideon, San Francisco Bay Area, 1953
Herzlia, Israel, October 11, 1956
Gideon, Mitla Pass, October 29, 1956, D Day, H Hour Minus 40 Minutes
Part Two: Shtetl Boy
White Russia, Wolkowysk, 1906
Nathan, Wolkowysk and Kiev, 1911
White Russia, Wolkowysk-Bialystok, 1916-1919
To Palestine, Warsaw, 1920
To Palestine, 1920-1921
Part Three: America! America!
Gideon, Mitla Pass, October 30, 1956, D Day Plus One
Ireland to America, Queenstown, the Port of Cork, Ireland, 1887
Baltimore, 1902-1913
Part Four: Arise, Ye Prisoners of Starvation
Tel Aviv, IDF Headquarters, October 30, 1956, Noon, D Day Plus One
Gideon, Mitla Pass, October 30, 1956, Evening, D Day Plus One
Shlomo
Jerusalem, February 1956
Natasha
Mitla Pass, October 31, 1956, 0400 Hours, D Day Plus Two
Mitla Pass, October 31, 1956, 0800 Hours, D Day Plus Two
Molly, 1922
Norfolk-Baltimore, 1935
Lazar, 1939-1941
Part Five: Just Before the Battle, Mother
Mitla Pass, October 31, 1956, 1100 Hours, D Day Plus Two
Cyprus, Kyrenia, November 12, 1956
Rome, November 15, 1956
Acknowledgments
A Biography of Leon Uris
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