The Margraten boys : how a European village kept America's liberators alive / Peter Schrijvers.

"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 S...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schrijvers, Peter, 1963-
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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Physical Description:xxii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a A Debt of Honor -- A Web of Intimate Relations -- Saying Goodbye -- The War Turns Cold -- A Long and Dark Shadow -- The End of History -- A Global Village -- The Return of History -- Of Paramount Importance -- The Audacity of Hope -- Postscript. 
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