When a father reveals his haunting past, a daughter takes an incredible journey of self-discovery .
Emmy(R) award-winning journalist, TV host, and New York Times bestselling author Rita Cosby has always asked the tough questions in her interviews with the world's top newsmakers.
Now, in a compelling and powerful memoir, she reveals how she uncovered an amazing personal story of heroism and courage, the untold secrets of a man she has known all her life: her father.
Years after her mother's tragic death, Rita finally nerved herself to sort through her mother's stored belongings, never dreaming what a dramatic story was waiting for her.
Opening a battered tan suitcase, she discovered it belonged to her father--the enigmatic man who had divorced her mother and left when Rita was still a teenager.
Rita knew little of her father's past: just that he had left Poland after World War II, and that his many scars, visible and not, bore mute witness to some past tragedy.
He had always refused to answer questions.
Now, however, she held in her hand stark mementos from the youth of the man she knew only as Richard Cosby, proud American: a worn 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.
Gazing at these profoundly telling relics, the well-known journalist realized that her father's story was one she could not allow him to keep secret any longer.
When she finally did persuade him to break his silence, she heard of a harrowing past that filled her with immense pride .
and chilled her to the bone.
At the age of thirteen, barely even adolescent, her father had seen his hometown decimated by bombs.
By the time he was fifteen, he was covertly distributing anti-Nazi propaganda a few blocks from the Warsaw Ghetto.
Before the Warsaw Uprising, he lied about his age to join the Resistance and actively fight the enemy to the last bullet.
After being nearly fatally w.
| Life | Her father |
|---|---|
| Rita knew little of her father's past | Just that he had left |
| American | A worn |
Threshold Editions Quiet hero: secrets from my father's past, paperback/rita cosby
