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- QB VII was a riveting fictional narrative about month-long libel trial in Queens Bench Courtroom Number Seven in 1967 by beloved author Leon Uris.
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The novel is loosely based on a court case for defamation (Dering v Uris) that arose from Uris's earlier best-selling novel Exodus.
Jan 1, 1970 · QB VII (Queen's Bench Court #7) is a courtroom drama set in London in 1967. It is based on a real-life libel case against Uris himself, when in 1964 he was sued by Dr. Wladislaw Dering. Dr. Dering had sued the writer over claims made in his earlier novel Exodus that he had been involved in medical experiments in Auschwitz.
- (30.2K)
- Mass Market Paperback
In Queen’s Bench Courtroom Number Seven, famous author Abraham Cady stands trial. In his book The Holocaust— born of the terrible revelation that the Jadwiga Concentration camp was the site of his...
- Leon Uris, Jill Uris
- Random House Publishing Group, 1982
- reprint
- Qb VII: A Novel
This mini-series, and the original novel, are a fictionalized version of the real-life lawsuit filed against author Leon Uris by Dr. Wladislaw Dering over a one-line reference in Uris' best-selling novel, "Exodus," about Dering's wartime record in a Nazi concentration camp.
- (885)
- 1974-04-29
- Drama, Mystery
- 390
May 1, 1982 · This novel, like all historical fiction, is based on a real event: the author's experience being sued for libel based on this negatively writing about a still living (at the time) physician who allegedly cooperated with the Nazis in medical atrocities.
- (764)
- Bantam
- $8.99
In his book The Holocaust— born of the terrible revelation that the Jadwiga Concentration camp was the site of his family’s extermination—Cady shook the consciousness of the human race. He also named eminent surgeon Sir Adam Kelno as one of Jadwiga’s most sadistic inmate/doctors.
I discovered that QB VII was based on Mr. Uris’ experience. After he wrote Exodus, he was being sued by a former doctor in Auschwitz (Dering v Uris). The defendants agreed that the footnote was defamatory to Dering, they also insisted it was true to substance.
