Exodus - 3 CDmp3 (Čte Vladislav Beneš)

Do you want to intern people again, gentlemen? After Auschwitz and Treblinka? ***** November 1946. American war widow Kitty Fremont, as a nurse with empathy, cares for patients of another race. Ari ben Kanaan embodies a passionate fighter for the cause of Zionism: he never wavers or cries when risking his neck in the ranks of the resistance organization Mossad Aliyah Bet for the freedom of the Jewish people. The spark between them ignites precisely because opposites attract so strongly. The flame of their feelings frames Leon Uris's fascinating novel fresco, initially focused on the rescue of three hundred children who are imprisoned by the British mandate authorities in Palestine on Cyprus. Meanwhile, the refugees were barely two hundred nautical miles from the shores of their new homeland – but the colonizers in the Middle East had long been interested in oil even before World War I. And so, with the help of Arab elites, they stubbornly defend their advantages, while exhausted settlers in the kibbutzim weave plans for rebellion at night... ***** An extraordinary chronicle of the Middle Eastern years 1946–1948, in which the Jewish fates exposed to the horrors of the 20th century merged into a tremendous will to survive against all odds, culminates in the declaration of an independent State of Israel. It also reminds us that the focal point of tension here still threatens to explode, as the world...