It was a time of cri­sis, a time of tragedy – and a time of tran­scen­dent courage and deter­mi­na­tion. Leon Uris’s blaz­ing nov­el is set in the midst of the ghet­to upris­ing that defied Nazi tyran­ny, as the Jews of War­saw bold­ly met Wehrma­cht tanks with home­made weapons and bare fists. Here, paint­ed on a can­vas as broad as its sub­ject mat­ter, is the com­pelling of one of the most hero­ic strug­gles of mod­ern times.