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  • A Novel
  • Von: Scott Turow
  • Gesprochen von: Edward Herrmann
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  • 4,3 out of 5 stars (3 Bewertungen)

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Ordinary Heroes

Von: Scott Turow
Gesprochen von: Edward Herrmann
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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.  

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.

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. 

©2005 Scott Turow (P)2005 Random House, Inc.

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"[Turow has] set new standards for the genre, most notably in the depth and subtlety of his characterizations...the kind of reading pleasure that only the best novelists, genre or otherwise, can provide." ( The New York Times)
"Turow makes the leap from courtroom to battlefield effortlessly." ( Publishers Weekly)
"No one writes better mystery suspense novels than Scott Turow." ( Los Angeles Times)
"Scott Turow not only knows what his readers want, he delivers just about perfectly...Turow is the closest we have to a Balzac of the fin de siecle professional class." ( Chicago Tribune)

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Extraordinary War Book

'Ordinary Heroes' is a departure from Scott Turow's usual subject matter. The reader is moved from the courtroom to the battlefield - and what a fantastic move it is.

Stewart Dubinsky, a middle-aged reporter, knew his father served in Europe during World War II, but the War was a subject off-limits in the Dubinsky household. Upon is father's death, Dubinski discovers that his father had been court-martialed and imprisoned, and sets out to find the decades-old answers. What follows is a tale that is anything but ordinary; a deeply emotional and painfully realistic drama of the horrors of war in the European theater.

This rich and carefully plotted novel tells a story within a story ? as the son delves deeper into his dead father's World War II past, he meets the man he never really knew. How bittersweet that this father-son connection comes too late ? the son is left with the knowledge of what could have been.

As usual, Scott Turow's prose is crisp and eloquent, insightful without being sentimental. A great book, with an excellent narrator for either gender, not just a 'war book'.

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