[bksvol-discuss] Wish List book
- From: "Jim" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bksvol-Discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 22:32:28 -0700
Hi List,
Just submitted Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
"Stewart knew his father had served in World War II. But when, after his
father's death, he discovers a packet of wartime letters to a former fiancee
and learns of his father's court-martial and imprisonment. he is plunged into
the mystery of his family's secret history and is driven to uncover the truth
about this enigmatic, distant man who 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 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 Patron's Third Army and eager 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 commander's." "In pursuit of
Martin, Dubin and his sergeant had parachuted into Bastogne just as the Battle
of the Bulge reached its apex. Pressed into the leadership of a desperately
depleted rifle company, the men were forced to abandon their quest for Martin
and his fiery, maddeningly elusive comrade, Gita Lodz, as they fought for their
lives through the ferocious winter battle that would determine Europe's fate."
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.
Jim B
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