The Margraten Boys: How a European Village Kept America's Liberators

The Margraten Boys: How a European Village Kept America's Liberators

by P. Schrijvers

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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.

Author: P. Schrijvers
Format: Paperback, 319 pages, 140mm x 216mm
Published: 2012, Palgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom
Genre: Regional History

Vendor: Secondhand Stock
SKU: 9780230346642-SECONDHAND
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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.