Book 1, Chapters 1-5 Summary

Exodus is the epic story of two generations of Jews striving to reclaim Palestine as a homeland after 2,000 years of dispersion.

"Welcome to Cyprus," Mark Parker reads on a large sign. Kitty Fremont cannot meet him at the airport, so he takes a taxi across the island, recalling the quiet, thoughtful girl next door who studied nursing, eloped with his lifelong pal and disappeared when Tom and their baby daughter died during the war. Mark married and divorced, served as an American News Syndicate (ANS) foreign correspondent and after covering the Nuremberg trials, has been assigned to Palestine, where war is brewing. He has heard that Kitty is working with Greek orphans and has arranged to meet her on Cyprus. Kitty is anxious to see him and has arranged everything, including adjoining rooms. Despite the excitement and tension, Mark...