Ordinary Heroes
 

Ordinary Heroes

by Scott Turow

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... (read more)

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Kathryn H
  • Rated 5 stars

This is an amazing book, exploring not only the relationship between father and son, but the mysteries a father kept from his son after the war. The path to discovery can be painful and hard, and also, can lead us to change our whole picture of a person...to a hero.

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Lesley B
  • Rated 2 stars

Lacking something. Not a pageturner, not great literature.

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