QB VII by Leon Uris was a best seller published in 1970. This four-part novel highlights the events leading to a life-shattering libel trial in the United Kingdom.
Parts one and two concern the plaintiff and defendant in this trial and take us through their lives before meeting in 1967.
The plaintiff is a doctor pressed into the service of the Nazis after Poland was overrun in World War II. As head physician in a concentration camp he has the opp...
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QB VII by Leon Uris was a best seller published in 1970. This four-part novel highlights the events leading to a life-shattering libel trial in the United Kingdom.
Parts one and two concern the plaintiff and defendant in this trial and take us through their lives before meeting in 1967.
The plaintiff is a doctor pressed into the service of the Nazis after Poland was overrun in World War II. As head physician in a concentration camp he has the opportunity to save many prisoners from the gas chambers. After the war, he becomes a naturalized citizen of the United Kingdom and serves for several years in a free medical clinic in Borneo. Upon resuming private practice, the doctor is confronted with allegations that he collaborated with the Nazis and performed ghastly medical experiments for them. At first he is staunchly defended, but as more evidence comes to light in the trial, his past is revealed.
The defendant served overseas in World War II and recovered in England. He'd been a...
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