Heart of a Soldier
Nov 2009 · Simon and Schuster
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From Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart comes the extraordinary story of American hero Rick Rescorla, Morgan Stanley security director and a veteran of Vietnam and the British colonial wars in Rhodesia, who lost his life on September 11.
When Rick Rescorla got home from Vietnam, he tried to put combat and death behind him, but he never could entirely. From the day he joined the British Army to fight a colonial war in Rhodesia, where he met American Special Forces’ officer Dan Hill who would become his best friend, to the day he fell in love with Susan, everything in his remarkable life was preparing him for an act of generosity that would transcend all that went before.
Heart of a Soldier is a story of bravery under fire, of loyalty to one’s comrades, of the miracle of finding happiness late in life. Everything about Rick’s life came together on September 11. In charge of security for Morgan Stanley, he successfully got all its 2,700 men and women out of the south tower of the World Trade Center. Then, thinking perhaps of soldiers he’d held as they died, as well as the woman he loved, he went back one last time to search for stragglers.
Heart of a Soldier is a story that inspires, offers hope, and helps heal even the deepest wounds.
When Rick Rescorla got home from Vietnam, he tried to put combat and death behind him, but he never could entirely. From the day he joined the British Army to fight a colonial war in Rhodesia, where he met American Special Forces’ officer Dan Hill who would become his best friend, to the day he fell in love with Susan, everything in his remarkable life was preparing him for an act of generosity that would transcend all that went before.
Heart of a Soldier is a story of bravery under fire, of loyalty to one’s comrades, of the miracle of finding happiness late in life. Everything about Rick’s life came together on September 11. In charge of security for Morgan Stanley, he successfully got all its 2,700 men and women out of the south tower of the World Trade Center. Then, thinking perhaps of soldiers he’d held as they died, as well as the woman he loved, he went back one last time to search for stragglers.
Heart of a Soldier is a story that inspires, offers hope, and helps heal even the deepest wounds.
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November 22, 2010
This book is one of the most moving that I have ever read. For a work of non-fiction, it reads amazingly quick. Mr. Stewart draws the reader in with the first words of the first chapter. The heroes in this book are the unsung heroes of every conflict that we of baby-boomer age are familiar with. Few books have ever brought me to tears. Never has a work of non-fiction done so. Until now.
This book should be required reading for every person who remembers Korea, Vietnam, the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and 911. Rick Rescorla and Dan Hill feel like friends to me after reading this book.
George Winkler
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September 11, 2015
A life before and during the 9/11 attacks of a true hero. A winding tale of action and bravery that brought a soldier and his best friend through countries and wars to his final moment of life which he spent saving others.
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Sam Goldsmith
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December 10, 2017
I am still reading it and I like it
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About the author
James B. Stewart is a columnist at The New York Times and the author of numerous books including the blockbuster Den of Thieves, Blood Sport, DisneyWar, and his most recent New York Times bestseller, Unscripted. He won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the stock market crash and insider trading. He is a regular contributor to SmartMoney and The New Yorker. He is a professor of business journalism at Columbia University and lives in New York.
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