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Elliot Rosenzweig, a rich Chicago philanthropist, is joining opening night in the opera.  Bill Solomon, a retired Polish immigrant, makes his way through the group and shoves a gun in Rosenzweig's experience, denouncing him as former SS official, Otto Piatek.   Solomon is blind-sided, pulled to the ground and obtained away.  Rosenzweig utilizes his huge impact to obtain Solomon released from prison, but Solomon begins a persistent quest to create Rosenzweig prior to the courts to answer for war crimes.  Solomon discovers a lawyer, Catherine Lockhart, to whom he recounts his family's challenges and heroisms during the war, revealing to her that he and Piatek was raised as siblings in exactly the same household.  Once We Were Brothers is a modern legal thriller and a touching look-back in to the lives of small-town Poland during World War II.  The writer, Ronald H. Balson, is an instructor, just a Dallas trial lawyer and writer.  His training has had him to many international locations, including towns in Belgium that have impressed this book.