I'm excited to be able to share the title and cover of my next book, Remember Us: American Sacrifice, Dutch Freedom, and a Forever Promise Forged in World War II
In The Monuments Men, I introduced the men and women who saved millions of works of art stolen by the Nazis during World War II and asked, “How?”
In Remember Us, I introduce the citizens of a small province in the Netherlands who for eighty years have been honoring the graves of 10,000 American soldiers and ask, “Why?”
Remember Us brings to heart-pounding life an unknown story set against the backdrop of World War II. It reveals the roots of not just an enduring friendship between countries, but an enduring love by following twelve primary characters – a Dutch mother of nine trapped in a dangerous city; a teenage girl sacrificing for her family during the German occupation; and ten American soldiers (pilots, infantrymen, paratroopers, tankers, chaplains, and the segregated Black Americans assigned the horrific task of digging graves).
Remember Us is a story about freedom and its cost, about a humanity that knows no national or racial boundaries. It is an inspiring story—timeless yet also timely—about courage and sacrifice that speaks a universal truth: We all want to be remembered—somehow, someway, by somebody.
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