Mila 18 is a stirring novel set is in German occupied Warsaw during World War II. Leon Uris's work is about the Nazi atrocities of systematically dehumanising and eliminating the Jewish People from the face of the earth. The term "ghetto" takes on a clearer meaning as the courageous Jewish leaders fight a losing battle against the Nazis and their henchmen. The "ultimate" solution was to ship all Jews in cattle cars for ultimate extermination at Death camps, but a few courageous individuals formed an army and made a stand, and what a stand it was for the germans. See Ulica Mila 18. Warsaw (Polish: Warszawa, see also other names, in full The Capital City of Warsaw, Polish: Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa) is the capital of Poland and its largest city. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the globe... Leon Uris (August 3, 1924 - June 21, 2003) was an American novelist, known for the amount of research he did for his novels. ... Look up Nazi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity; and often a combination of these attributes. ... A ghetto is an area where people from a specific ethnic background or united in a given culture or religion live as a group, voluntarily or involuntarily, in milder or stricter seclusion. ... A car, often a train car or semi trailer, used to transport cattle. ... A death camp is either a concentration camp, the important (though not necessarily single) function of which is to facilitate mass murder of the people deported into such a camp (such as the Nazis Auschwitz and Majdanek, which acquired their murderous functions only some time after they had been... Army (from French armée) can, in some countries, refer to any armed force (for example, the Peoples Liberation Army of China consists of ground force, navy and air force branches). ... Ulica Mila 18 was famous as the headquarters bunker of the Jewish Fighting Organisation or Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ŻOB) in Polish, the bunker at 18 Mila Street was not constructed by the ZOB. It was made by a group of underworld smugglers in early 1943. ...

The story is largely told from the standpoint of an American-Italian journalist, Christopher de Monti, who is assigned to Warsaw after covering the Spanish civil war. Although meant to be a neutral observer, he meets and becomes intimate with both the nazi hierarchy and the Jews of Warsaw. As the ghetto is surrounded and reduced to rubble, he throws in his lot with the gallant defenders. He is one of the few survivors and manages to escape with a young woman, Gabriela, who is pregnant with the child of one of the murdered defenders.