{"id":710,"date":"2015-10-28T12:34:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T11:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adoptiegraven-margraten.nl\/en\/?page_id=710"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:42:18","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.adoptiegraven-margraten.nl\/en\/webshop\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books and films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row background_style=&#8221;image-right&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1746100764738{background-image: url(https:\/\/www.adoptiegraven-margraten.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Voorblad-Remember-Us-scaled.jpg?id=1484) !important;}&#8221;][vc_column]<div class=\"text-block\"><div class=\"detail-line\"><\/div><h5>By Robert Edsel<\/h5><h4>The book \u201cRemember Us\u201d<\/h4><\/div>[vc_column_text]\u201cAn intimate, moving look at the war that extracts deep meaning from the carnage and loss.\u201d Publishers Weekly<\/p>\n<p>What happens when you lose your freedom and the people who eventually get it back for you are no longer alive to thank?<\/p>\n<p>Remember Us, Robert Edsel\u2014#1\u00a0New York Times bestselling\u00a0author of\u00a0The Monuments Men\u2014begins in the pre-dawn hours of Hitler\u2019s invasion of Western Europe on May 10, 1940, when his forces rolled into the small rural province of Limburg in the Netherlands shattering more than 100 years of peace. Their freedom gone, the Dutch lived through four-and-a-half years of occupation until American forces reached Limburg in September 1944, the last portion of Western Europe liberated by the Allies before their advance on Nazi Germany slammed to a halt. Like\u00a0The Monuments Men,\u00a0Remember Us\u00a0is an ensemble piece that follows twelve main<\/p>\n<p>characters over a six-year span, zeroing in on ordinary people including Frieda van Schaik, a teenager who falls in love with an American soldier; Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cole, the first member of the 101st Airborne to receive the Medal of Honor; and Sergeant Jeff Wiggins of the 960th Quartermaster Service Company, who escaped the poverty and racism of Alabama for yet another indignity\u2014digging graves.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on never-before-seen letters, diaries, and other historical records, Edsel shows thepainful price of freedom, on the battlefields and inside American homes. In this rich, dramatic, and suspenseful story, he captures both the horrors of war and the transcendent power of gratitude, showing the extraordinary measures the Dutch have taken to thank their liberators.\u00a0Remember Us\u00a0is exactly the book we need\u2014a reminder that grief is universal, that humanity knows no national or racial boundaries, and that we all want to be remembered, somehow, someway, by somebody.<\/p>\n<p>The English version of the book \u201cRemember Us\u201d can be ordered through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Remember-Us-American-Sacrifice-Freedom\/dp\/140033781X\/ref=sr_1_1\">this Amazon link<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row background_style=&#8221;image-right&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1750667416646{background-image: url(https:\/\/www.adoptiegraven-margraten.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Omslag-Margraten-Boys-US.jpg?id=1494) !important;}&#8221;][vc_column]<div class=\"text-block\"><div class=\"detail-line\"><\/div><h5>Author: Peter Schrijvers<\/h5><h4>The book \u201cThe Margraten Boys\u201d<\/h4><\/div>[vc_column_text]This book tells the story of more than 10.000 American boys buried at the military cemetery in\u00a0Margraten, a small village in the Southern part of the Netherlands, and their Dutch adopters.\u00a0Stories about the suffering during Nazi occupation, about life, struggle and death of the young\u00a0American liberators, about the memories and sorrow of their families in the USA. Also a story of\u00a0many loyal adopters who commemorated end prayed for \u201ctheir\u201d boys all those years.\u00a0A story how\u00a0a small village refused to forget their American friends. Anyone interested in WWII should read\u00a0this book.<\/p>\n<p>The English version of the book can be ordered through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Margraten-Boys-European-Americas-Liberators\/dp\/0230346642\/\">this Amazon link<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"text-block\"><div class=\"detail-line\"><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row background_style=&#8221;image-right&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1746100764738{background-image: url(https:\/\/www.adoptiegraven-margraten.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Voorblad-Remember-Us-scaled.jpg?id=1484) !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]\u201cAn intimate, moving look at the war that extracts deep meaning from the carnage and loss.\u201d Publishers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-710","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>American Cemetery\u00a0Margraten - Products<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Read stories about fallen liberators or a names on the Walls of the Missing. read about them and discover who the\u00a0true\u00a0heroes are. 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