Leon Uris is a master of the underdog novel, and his 1958 blockbuster is no different. It tells the story of the founding of Israel, beginning with the Jewish refugee camps in Cyrprus. Britain, one of the novel’s big bads, still holds Palestine as a colony, and refuses to let these refugees enter Palestine. A ship named the Exodus is found and a daring escape is made, eventually allowing the small existing Jewish population in Palestine to swell into a group large enough to form […]