Ordinary Heroes: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (593 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0739322567 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 457 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Could Not Put The Book Down The secret life Of David Dubin, a JAG officer during World War II is revealed to his son Stewart shortly after his death. This revelation was made while his son was going through his father's personal belongings. Letters hidden away in a closet were discovered. It was revealed that his father had been having a love affair with another woman. And if that wasn't enough, he had also been recommended for a court-martial.Stew. Jonathan Carter said My New Favorite Book!. There is no exaggeration when I state that this is my new favorite book. When I read the synopsis of this story, I realized that it did not follow the same court room theme like most of Scott Turow's books. I hate court house dramas. THIS story though was far from Turrow's norm. We follow Stewart Dubinsky as he discovers that his father, David Dubin, was not the bland old man he thought he was.As Stewart is rummaging thr. War, Love, Intrigue and Heroism--a fictional account of true events Scott Turow is a masterful writer. This was a work of fiction that was written as if it were a son's memoir of his father, and a publishing of his father's account of his war experiences in France and Germany during World War II. The characters were perfectly developed, and I had to keep reminding myself that this was fiction, and not a true account of a man's experience in the terror of war. There were twists and turns
From optimistic soldier to disenchanted veteran, Dubin—who, via the manuscript, becomes the book's de facto narrator—describes the years of violence he endured and of a love triangle that exacted a heavy emotional toll. In Turow's ambitious, fascinating page-turner, a "ferocious curiosity" compels the divorced Dubinsky to study his "remote, circumspect" father's papers, which include love letters written to a fiancée the family had never heard of, and a lengthy manuscript, which his father wrote in prison and which includes the shocking disclosure of his father's court-martial for assisting in the escape of OSS officer Robert Martin, a suspected spy. (Nov. When retired newspaperman Stewart Dubinsky (last seen in 1987's Presumed Innocent) discovers letters his deceased father wrote during his tour of duty in WWII, a host of family secrets come to light. 1)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . Turow mak
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'. 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.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.From the Hardcover edition.. 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 impri