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Quiet hero : secrets from my father's past / Rita Cosby.

Publication | Library Call Number: CT275.C795 C67 2010

Uncovers the author's father's history as a WWII prisoner-of-war, a situation he found himself in after he joined the Polish resistance against the Nazis as a teen, in a book with archival photos and pictures of artifacts.

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Format: Book
Author/Creator: Cosby, Rita.
Published: New York : Threshold Editions, 2010
Locale: United States
Poland
Germany
Language: English
Edition: 1st Threshold Editions hardcover ed

Physical Description: vii, 296 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9781439165508
1439165505 (hc)
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
Immigrants--United States--Biography.
Fathers and daughters--United States--Biography.
Prisoners of war--Poland--Biography.
Prisoners of war--Germany--Biography.
Polish Americans--Biography.
Cosby, Richard--(Richard Roger)
Cosby, Rita--Family.
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