num_pages: 102
description: Two men wait through the night in British-controlled Palestine for dawn--and for death.  One is a captured English officer.  The other is Elisha, a young Israeli freedom fighter whose assignment is to kill the officer in reprisal for Britain's execution of a Jewish prisoner.  Elisha's past is the nightmare memory of Nazi death camps.  He is the only surviving member of his family.  His future is a cherished dream of life in the promised homeland.  But at daybreak his present will become the tortured reality of a principled man ordered to commit cold-blooded murder.  Resonant with feeling, Dawn is an unforgettable journey into the human heart--and an eloquent statement about the moral basis of the new Israel."
language: English
title: Dawn
titlecomplete: Dawn
genres: Classics, Historical, World War II, Judaism, Jewish, Holocaust, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 19454
places: British Mandate for Palestine
series: The Night Trilogy
publisher: Bantam