false 186980 16 <div>Stewart Dubinsky knew his father had served in World War II. And he'd been told how David Dubin (as his father had Americanized the name that Stewart later reclaimed) had rescued Stewart's mother from the horror of the Balingen concentration camp. But when he discovers, after his father's death, a packet of wartime letters to a former fiancée, and learns of his father's court-martial and imprisonment, he is plunged into the mystery of his family's secret history and driven to uncover the truth about this enigmatic, distant man who'd always refused to talk about his war.<br><br>As he pieces together his father's past through military archives, letters, and, finally, notes from a memoir his father wrote while in prison, secretly preserved by the officer who defended him, Stewart starts to assemble a dramatic and baffling chain of events. He learns how Dubin, a JAG lawyer attached to Patton's Third Army and desperate for combat experience, got more than he bargained for when he was ordered to arrest Robert Martin, a wayward OSS officer who, despite his spectacular bravery with the French Resistance, appeared to be acting on orders other than his commanders'. In pursuit of Martin, Dubin and his sergeant are parachuted into Bastogne just as the Battle of the Bulge reaches its apex. Pressed into the leadership of a desperately depleted rifle company, the men are forced to abandon their quest for Martin and his fiery, maddeningly elusive comrade, Gita, as they fight for their lives through carnage and chaos the likes of which Dubin could never have imagined.<br><br>In reconstructing the terrible events and agonizing choices his father faced on the battlefield, in the courtroom, and in love, Stewart gains a closer understanding of his past, of his father's character, and of the brutal nature of war itself. <br></div> 2984589 2005 Ordinary Heroes total:394|5:73|4:154|3:128|2:33|1:6| 394 1437 569 67 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 06:31:46 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 06:31:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Thu Feb 05 09:36:29 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:36:29 -0800 2009 Retired reporter Stewart Dubinsky last made an appearance in Presumed Innocent (1987). Here, the self-lacerating Dubinsky delves deep into his family's wartime history__one loosely based on Turow's father's experiences. For critics, the question is whether a legal-thriller writer can succeed in anot...

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I found this bo...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon May 18 02:02:55 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 02:04:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 12 12:18:41 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 12:23:31 -0700 2008 ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 21:05:03 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 21:06:57 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Feb 08 08:34:07 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 08:34:24 -0800 2009 ]]> 3 0 false false Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 07:24:02 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 07:29:59 -0700 2009 Deals with one sons discovery of his Fathers past.His exploits and bravery of common men in shaping historic events of WWII.The naration style is great especially the use of letters to continue the story and to create suspense.]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 09:31:06 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 06:34:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 20:02:45 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 20:04:59 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 03 12:24:23 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 03 12:24:23 -0700 2007 http://www.scottturow.com/ordinaryheroes...
Great characters, especially the two resistance fighters--Martin and Gita, especially Gita. The audiobook includes an interesting inter...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 05:28:06 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 05:40:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 01:58:16 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 13:39:42 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 21:00:08 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 21:01:59 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Sep 13 13:13:12 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 13:14:42 -0700 2009 5 0 true false Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 13:54:15 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 13:28:05 -0700 2009 1
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