Table of Contents

Foreword Acknowledgments 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

About the Author

PETER SCHRIJVERS Author of four other books on World War II, among them The Crash of Ruin: American Combat Soldiers in Europe during World War II and Bloody Pacific: American Soldiers at War with Japan. He teaches American and International History at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Reviews

'...well-researched and draws on an extensive range of archival collections on both sides of the Atlantic. 'The Margarten Boys' is insightful in tracing the complex ways individuals, societies, and governments seek to commemorate and shape the memory of the past.' - G. Kurt Piehler, Director of the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience, Florida State University, USA