The Margraten boys: how a European village kept America's liberators alive

Both harrowing and redeeming, this is the history of a unique 'adoption' system. For generations, local families, grateful for the sacrifice of their liberators from Nazi occupation, have cared for the graves of over ten thousand US soldiers in the cemetery of Margraten in the Netherlands, keeping their memoryalive for their far-away next of kin. PETER SCHRIJVERSAuthor of four other books on World War II, among them 'The Crash of Ruin: American Combat Soldiers in Europe during World War II' and 'Bloody Pacific: American Soldiers at War with Japan'. He teaches American and International History at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. INDICE: Foreword - Acknowledgments - A Debt of Honor - A Web of Intimate Relations - Saying Goodbye - The War Turns Cold - A Long and Dark Shadow - The End of History - A Global Village - The Return of History - Of Paramount Importance - The Audacity of Hope - Postscript

• ISBN: 978-0-230-34664-2
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 344
• Fecha Publicación: 23/02/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés