Oharas Choice - Softcover

Uris, Leon

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ISBN 10: 0060570016 ISBN 13: 9780060570019

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2003

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The son of a legendary Civil War marine, Zachary O'Hara struggles to keep the marines a viable part of the nation's military and unexpectedly falls in love with obstinate industrial heiress Amanda Kerr, a relationship that is threatened by a painful secret. (Historical Fiction)

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Review:

"A spellbinding storyteller." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"A brilliant storyteller." -- Irish Voice

A brilliant storyteller. --Irish Voice

"Bloody battles well done, much excellent period writing ..."--Kirkus Reviews

"A brilliant storyteller."--Irish Voice

"Uris is to the twentieth century what Charles Dickens was to the nineteenth."--Associated Press

"A spellbinding storyteller."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"A master at weaving historical fact and fiction."--USA Today

"[Uris pulls] all his characters together like a master puppeteer."--Chicago Tribune

Bloody battles well done, much excellent period writing ... --Kirkus Reviews"

About the Author:

Internationally acclaimed novelist Leon Uris ran away from home at age seventeen, a month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, to join the Marine Corps, and he served at Guadalcanal and Tarawa. His first novel, Battle Cry, was based on his own experiences in the Marines, which he revisited in his final novel, O'Hara's Choice. His other novels include the bestsellers Redemption, Trinity, Exodus, QB VII, and Topaz, among others. Leon Uris passed away in June 2003.

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