Tucson Festival of Books

Unsung Heroes


Bestselling authors Jack Fairweather and Lisa Rogak discuss the unsung heroes of their new books. The authors will discuss how they uncovered the true stories of people whose unwavering determination and willingness to risk everything helped triumph over the forces of fascism during and after World War II.


Panelists
Jack Fairweather

Jack Fairweather is the author of the Costa Book Award-winner "The Volunteer," an international bestseller that’s been hailed as a modern classic and compared to Schindler’s List. He served as a correspondent for The Washington Post and The Daily Telegraph, where he was the paper’s Baghdad and Persian Gulf bureau chief....

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Lisa Rogak

Lisa Rogak is the bestselling author of numerous books, including "And Nothing But the Truthiness: The Rise (and Further Rise) of Stephen Colbert," and "Angry Optimist: The Life and Times of Jon Stewart....

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Books:
The Prosecutor
The True Story of One Lawyer's Postwar Quest to Bring Nazis to Justice
Jack Fairweather
History / Biography
Crown
February 2025
ISBN 9780593238943
432 pages
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Propaganda Girls
The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
Lisa Rogak
History / Biography
St. Martin's Publishing Group
March 2025
ISBN 9781250275592
240 pages