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Quiet Hero
Emmy award-winning journalist, TV host, and New York Times bestselling Rita Cosby 's new book Quiet Hero - Secrets from My Father 's Past is the story of her father Richard Cosby, a Warsaw Uprising Fighter. Surprisingly, she knew little about his harrowing past: that he had left Poland after World War II and had scars all over his body that he refused to talk about.
One Christmas, when Rita was a teenager, her father abruptly announced he was leaving, which caused a severe divide in their relationship that would continue most of Rita's life. Years later, after her mother's death, Rita discovered a worn and tattered leather suitcase tucked away full of mementos from the youth of the man she knew only as Richard Cosby: including an old Polish Resistance armband, rusted tags bearing a prisoner number and the words Stalag IVB; and an identity card for an ex-POW bearing the name Ryszard Kossobudzki.
These relics would be the tools for Rita to open a new dialogue with her distant father, and embark upon the most amazing journey of her life. "I needed to know what really happened," she thought.
After years of estrangement, Rita finally persuaded her father to break his silence. Richard spent his teens in the Polish Resistance, actively fighting the enemy to the last bullet in the Warsaw Uprising in...