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...Mila 18, Uris...
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...walled in and wiped out, block by block, do the Jews awaken to the full horror of their fate. Some drag their own screaming relatives to the death trains to buy another day of life-in-death. Others, like Andrei Androfski, opt to sally out of bunkers like Mila 18 and salvage pride and honor in the suicidal, 42-day ghetto uprising that ranks in the legends of heroism as a modern Thermopylae...
...horror resembles a cataclysm of nature like an earthquake or a typhoon, and the inequity of the struggle smothers the tragic sense, which demands a more equal conflict in which the hero duels with himself, with another man or with God. Man's fate as it unfolds in Mila 18 contains the hound-after-fox emotions of the chase and the kill, sometimes exciting, often poignant, but always oppressive...