The Margraten boys
Subtitle: how a European village kept America's liberators alive
By: Peter Schrijvers
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230346642
Subjects: Monuments; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial (Margraten, Netherlands); Soldiers' monuments; HISTORY / Europe / Western; World War, 1939-1945; Soldiers; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; HISTORY / Military / World War II; History
Description: "In the peaceful Dutch village of Margraten, a stone's throw from what once was Nazi Germany, ten thousand young American men are forever resting side by side amid rich pastures and lush orchards.  They fought and died in the most epic battles of World War II in Europe: Operation Market Garden, the Siegfried Line campaign, the Hürtgen Forest, the Battle of the Bulge, the Rhine and Roer River crossings, and the air offensive over Germany.  In 1945 the liberated villagers vowed never to forget the sacrifices of the Margraten boys. This is the moving story of how, in a unique way, these grateful villagers have kept their word to the GIs and their families in America by caring for the graves of the soldiers up until the present day"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A Debt of Honor; title: A Web of Intimate Relations; title: Saying Goodbye; title: The War Turns Cold; title: A Long and Dark Shadow; title: The End of History; title: A Global Village; title: The Return of History; title: Of Paramount Importance; title: The Audacity of Hope; title: Postscript.