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The Margraten Boys: How a European Village Kept America's Liberators Alive
Peter Schrijvers
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Description for The Margraten Boys: How a European Village Kept America's Liberators Alive
Hardcover. 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 not only the graves, but the memories, of over 10,000 US soldiers in the cemetery of Margraten in the Netherlands. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJD; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JWTY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 546.
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 not only the graves, but the memories, of over 10,000 US soldiers in the cemetery of Margraten in the Netherlands.
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 not only the graves, but the memories, of over 10,000 US soldiers in the cemetery of Margraten in the Netherlands.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
319
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230346635
SKU
V9780230346635
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About Peter Schrijvers
PETER SCHRIJVERS Author 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.
Reviews for The Margraten Boys: How a European Village Kept America's Liberators Alive
'...well-researched and draws on an extensive range of archival collections on both sides of the Atlantic. 'The Margarten Boys' is insightful in tracing the complex ways individuals, societies, and governments seek to commemorate and shape the memory of the past.' - G. Kurt Piehler, Director of the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience, Florida State University, USA ... Read more