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Stewart Dubinsky knew his father, David, had served in World War II, but had been told very little about his experiences. When he finds, after his father's death, a packet of wartime letters to a former fiancee and learns of David's court-martial, Stewart is driven to uncover the truth about this enigmatic, distant man he never knew.

Using military archives, old letters, and David's own notes, he discovers that David, a JAG lawyer, had pursued a maverick U.S. officer in Europe, fallen in love with a beautiful resistance fighter, and fought in the war's deadliest conflicts. 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 father's secret past and of the brutal nature of war itself.

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Scott Turow is the author of eleven bestselling works of fiction, including Identical, Innocent, Presumed Innocent, and The Burden of Proof, and two nonfiction books, including One L, about his experience as a law student. His books have been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and have been adapted into movies and television projects. He has frequently contributed essays and op-ed pieces to publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, and the Atlantic.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grand Central Publishing; Reprint edition (April 5, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 544 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0446584134
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0446584135
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Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.25 x 1.85 x 7.45 inches

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Scott Turow was born in Chicago in 1949. He graduated with high honors from Amherst College in 1970, receiving a fellowship to Stanford University Creative Writing Center which he attended from 1970 to 1972. From 1972 to 1975 Turow taught creative writing at Stanford. In 1975, he entered Harvard Law School, graduating with honors in 1978. From 1978 to 1986, he was an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago, serving as lead prosecutor in several high-visibility federal trials investigating corruption in the Illinois judiciary. In 1995, in a major pro bono legal effort he won a reversal in the murder conviction of a man who had spent 11 years in prison, many of them on death row, for a crime another man confessed to.
Today, he is a partner in the Chicago office of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal an international law firm, where his practice centers on white-collar criminal litigation and involves representation of individuals and companies in all phases of criminal matters. Turow lives outside Chicago
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Fargoan

Excellent story, but flawed construction

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 15, 2022

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Scott Turow is unquestionably an excellent fiction writer, and the sections of this novel where he is telling the father's story have the same moving qualities as some of his other very fine books. However, the stated set-up of why the father is writing is hard to take realistically, and it seems that Turow as novelist is basically just stepping in and telling the story with his usual novelist skills. There is also a very clumsy frame structure with a son narrating events, which never reaches enough depth to be credible -- the son himself never really gets enough strength as a character to stand on his own, and while we learn a couple of important pieces of information from him, some of that is predictable.

After reading Turow's "Note on Sources" at the end, I understand why he felt compelled to write this story -- the father's experiences are, more or less, based on Turow's own father's experiences. [Spoiler] And Turow, as a writer of Jewish descent, probably felt like he had to take on the topic of the concentration camps, providing a perspective on them that I haven't seen elsewhere, from the point of view of soldiers and others who first entered the camps and saw the depths of horror first-hand, before anything could be done to help the inmates. That section is horrific but also powerful.

But I've noticed that when writers try to work real, historical stories into novels, often they don't quite mesh well. Francine Mathews has tried this with a couple of her novels that, in my view, just don't succeed as novels ('Jack 1939' and 'The Alibi Club') because the the historical realities are just too unwieldy to work easily into the fictional framework. I'm wondering if the same thing is happening here, especially given that Turow is the son more or less ghost-writing his father's war stories. He has to introduce the father and the father's narrative somehow, but since it is his own father's story, it might have been just a little close to home to create the son's role fully and convincingly.

There are many powerful and moving scenes here, but also bits outside of the war narrative that just aren't credible in a literary sense.

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This is not the classic page-turner of nonstop action, cliffhangers, and suspense. But it is classic Scott Turow: intelligent, intricately plotted, and superbly crafted, adding up to an extraordinary mystery that also can't be put down.

Turow, a practicing lawyer best known for his legal drama, wraps the plot only loosely around the law as he treads new ground with this original novel of World War II. Stewart Dubinsky, a middle-aged reporter, knew is father served in Europe during WWII, but the War was a subject off-limits in the Dubinski 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.

It is early 1944, and Dubinsky's father, David Dubin, is a young lawyer assigned to the US Army's JAG Corps headquartered in Nancy, France, recently re-occupied by the Allies. He is assigned to investigate the alleged insubordination of Robert Martin, a Major in the CIA-forerunner OSS. Martin is a shadowy figure; a living legend of unparalleled heroism and bravery behind Nazi lines, but perhaps also a spy the loosely allied Soviets. Turow, ever the perfectionist, can be counted on for a richly developed cast of characters. And rarely has there been a character more interesting than the enigmatic Gita Lodz, a Polish immigrant turned French resistance commando, a gritty and war-hardened warrior with as much similarity to Laura Croft as LeCarre's George Smiley has to James Bond. She is also the inseparable companion of Martin, setting up the first two legs of the triangle that Dubin not surprisingly completes. In pursuing Martin - and Gita - through northern Europe, the lawyer Dubin finds himself pressed into service as a front-line infantry officer to replenish Allied troops decimated by the Nazis during the Battle of the Bulge. Told from foxhole-level perspective, Turow paints a horrific picture of the War as brutally vivid and gory as "Saving Private Ryan", while capturing the passion and emotion of Leon Uris' best works. As much a character study as it is a mystery, Turow takes us on his own campaign culminating in a morbidly riveting portrayal of a Nazi concentration camp and ending in an unexpected twist to Major Robert Martin's story.

It is typically three years between Scott Turow's novels, presumably due to the painstaking research he conducts. Delivered with the historical authority and authenticity usually associated with Alan Furst, Turow applies his trademarked plots, clever twists, and human struggles, adding up to a moving and educational drama that you'll likely be recommending to your friends. Well done, Mr. Turow!

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exhilarating!

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One of the best books I have had the pleasure of reading. It read as a true novel and seemed to flow right to the end.

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"Ordinary" Heroes, indeed.

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As I stumble into the middle of middle age, I have developed an interest in WWII. At this juncture, it is a cliche to say that for those of us who grew up in the safe sterility of post-war suburbia, the courage that millions of young American men endured through pain, terror and boredom, for the sake of a truly worthy cause is literally unimaginable.

Since first reading "One L," I have enjoyed Scott Turow's writing. The "mystery" that moves the story forward is of little significance. But the portrayal of one young man moving from a somewhat "touristy" assignment in the Judge Advocate General Corps into the mad, hallucinogenic hell of combat during the Battle of the Bulge is masterfully detailed. This is greatly enriched by the thoughts, meditations, and insights of the soldier going through this experience. There is nothing overheated in this writing. If anything, things are slightly understated so that the full impact can settle in on the reader.

America did not experience the actual destruction of our landscape (as Europe did) to provide some physical correspondence to the psychological devastation so many of those young men experienced. They came back and somehow contributed to the greatest economic boom and expansion of the middle class in the history of the world. Consequently, those of us born only a few years later by and large have no idea what likely would have happened to the world in the absence of the courage of so many of these "average Joes." Scott Turow has done a terrific job of helping put that experience into perspective, carving out an important niche between "The Naked and the Dead" and "Catch 22." As I hope is clear from this review, I was greatly moved.

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The reality of war

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 15, 2017

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This is an author of wide experience. Having read the excellent Presumed Innocent I was keen to read an equally enthralling and insightful legal thriller. Instead, with Ordinary Heroes, I found a story that was entirely different, equally well-written and which for me filled in some of the gaps in my World War II knowledge.

So often films, documentaries and stories stop short after the dramatic D Day landings. This tale tells us something of the unbelievably horrific experiences of ordinary soldiers who, once they had survived the landings, had to forge through France and Belgium to meet with the Nazis in ground and air conflict. The post-war generations often question the reticence of veterans when the subject of the war arises. This account gives an insight into the reason for that reluctance to share experiences.

For those of us who are not fascinated with the details of military combat, it became a bit hard-going at times. However, I felt that I should try to grasp the complexities of warfare – tactics, types of armaments etc. – in honour of those people who had no choice but to immerse themselves in such things as they laid their lives on the line for the sake of peace. I am glad I did. I feel just a bit better educated now in a conflict that joined Britain and the USA in a close union that has endured.

The main character in this moving story was extremely well drawn. The author is skilled at describing not just events but motives, emotions, confessions, innermost thoughts - everything that creates a rounded person to whom the reader can feel connected and empathetic. His concentration on such detail made this a long book, but it was worth it. I am still reflecting on the story several days after finishing the book. That doesn’t usually happen.

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JPW

Good but not Turow's usual style

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 12, 2014

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A fascinating story with very moving descriptions of the effects of war and combat on troops. However the style is unusual. The majority of the story is as written in a report by an officer, the main character, and as such is not as fast moving as the usual Turow style. But a good read

Conker

Could literally not put this book down

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 26, 2020

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Best book I have read this year

margaret Glasgow

Ordinary heroes

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 20, 2014

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Fantastic book his writing about the battles was both exciting and moving I've never been disappointed In any of his books and dont hesitate to recommend it

Geoff Hill

Brilliant

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Intelligent, thoughtful and with unforgettable characters, one of the best books I've read in ages.

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