“When I started reading history, I ended up reading historical novels like Mila 18 or Armageddon,…”
Why: Turgid melodrama, but also ripped right out of the history books.
Tom Hanks, Guest on Dan Carlin's Hardcore HistoryWolf Pack Hunting with Hanks
Mila 18
Leon Uris · 1961
A historical novel depicting the armed Jewish resistance inside a European ghetto during the Second World War.
Tom Hanks notes that while it is turgid melodrama, it is also ripped right out of the history books.
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