The Margraten Boys: How a European Village Kept America's Liberators AliveHarrowing 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. |
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Inhalt
1 A Debt of Honor | 1 |
2 A Web of Intimate Relations | 33 |
3 Saying Goodbye | 60 |
4 The War Turns Cold | 79 |
5 A Long and Dark Shadow | 109 |
6 The End of History | 134 |
7 A Global Village | 157 |
8 The Return of History | 186 |
9 Of Paramount Importance | 218 |
10 The Audacity of Hope | 243 |
Postscript | 268 |
Notes | 273 |
Bibliography | 298 |
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The Margraten Boys: How a European Village Kept America's Liberators Alive Peter Schrijvers Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2012 |
The Margraten Boys: How a European Village Kept America's Liberators Alive P. Schrijvers Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2012 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
101st Airborne Division 25 April 30th Infantry Division ABMC addresses adoption community Adoption Foundation adoption program AGRC Allied ambassador American cemetery American families American graves American liberators American military cemetery American relatives American soldiers Amsterdam arrived brother Brunssum buried cemetery’s ceremony Civilian Committee commemorate daughter Dutch adopters Dutch family Dutch government Dutchman Eijsden Emilie van Kessenich Europe Father Heuschen Felix Prevoo flowers Folder Geleen German Gronsveld Heerlen honor husband IDPF Infantry Division infantryman June Kerkrade killed Landgraaf later letter liberation Lieutenant Limburg governor lives Lucie Maastricht Margraten adoption Margraten boys Margraten cemetery Margraten mayor Meerssen Memorial Day Michiels van Kessenich mother Nazi Netherlands never newspaper NWGC Operation Market Garden overseas paratrooper parents peace Plot President remained repatriation sent sergeant Shomon southern Limburg story town troops veterans Vietnam volunteers wife woman World World War II young
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The Margraten Boys: How a European Village Kept America's Liberators Alive |
| Autor | Peter Schrijvers |
| Verlag | Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 |
| ISBN | 0230379710, 9780230379718 |
| Länge | 319 Seiten |
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