![]() On the phone tonight is Smith family attorney Brett Rivkind. Even more unusual, the men say they‘ve got some photos of the room service to prove it. The four men in question say they couldn‘t have been near George when he vanished because they were in their own cabin, eating room service. Lawyers say their version of events are inconsistent and even bizarre. They may have been the last people to see Smith. Attorneys for Smith‘s family now say that they have some doubts about the story told by a group of passengers. As Rita drew these stories from her father and uncovered secrets and emotions long kept hidden, father and daughter forged a new and precious bond, deeper than either could have ever imagined.But first, a ground-breaking development in the case of missing honeymooner George Smith, who vanished from his Royal Caribbean cruise. In turn, Rita convinced her father to join her in a dramatic return to his battered homeland for the first time in sixty-five years. but one that he eventually revealed to the journalist. It is the story of a daughter coming to understand a father whose past was too painful to share with those he loved the most, too terrible to share with a child. This is Richard Cosby’s story, but it is also Rita’s. After being nearly fatally wounded, he was taken into captivity and sent to a German POW camp near Dresden, finally escaping in a daring plan and ultimately rescued by American forces. Before the Warsaw Uprising, he lied about his age to join the Resistance and actively fight the enemy to the last bullet. By the time he was fifteen, he was covertly distributing anti-Nazi propaganda a few blocks from the Warsaw Ghetto. and chilled her to the bone.Īt the age of thirteen, barely even adolescent, her father had seen his hometown decimated by bombs. When she finally did persuade him to break his silence, she heard of a harrowing past that filled her with immense pride. 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. 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. He had always refused to answer questions. ![]() 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. 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. 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. 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. Įmmy® 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. ![]() When a father reveals his haunting past, a daughter takes an incredible journey of self-discovery.
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