The Margraten Boys : How a European Village Kept America's Liberators Alive
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0230346642
ISBN-13
9780230346642
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 23rd, 2012
Print length
319 Pages
Weight
434 grams
Dimensions
19.20 x 12.70 x 2.10 cms
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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.
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.
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