ABOUT T HE BOOK:
\nWhat happens when you lose your freedom and the people who eventually get it back for you are no longer alive to thank?
\nRemember Us\, by Robert Edsel&mdash\;#1 New York Times bestselling a uthor of The Monuments Men&mdash\;opens in the pre-dawn hours of Hitler&rs quo\;s invasion of Western Europe on May 10\, 1940\, when his forces rolle d into the small rural province of Limburg in the Netherlands\, shattering more than 100 years of peace. Their freedom gone\, the Dutch lived throug h four-and-a-half years of occupation until September 1944\, when American forces reached Limburg\, the last portion of Western Europe liberated by the Allies before their advance on Nazi Germany slammed to a halt.
\nLike The Monuments Men\, Remember Us is an ensemble piece\; it follows tw elve main characters over a six-year span (1940-1946) including Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cole\, the first member of the 101st Airborne to receive t he Medal of Honor\; Sergeant Jeff Wiggins of the 960th Quartermaster Compa ny\, a segregated Black unit\, who escaped the poverty and racism of Alaba ma for yet another indignity&mdash\;digging graves\; and Frieda van Sch&au ml\;ik\, a Dutch teenager who falls in love with an American soldier.
\ nIn this rich\, dramatic\, and suspenseful story\, Edsel captures both the horrors of war and the transcendent power of gratitude\, showing the e xtraordinary measures the Dutch have taken to thank their liberators. Draw ing on never-before-seen letters\, diaries\, and other historical records\ , he shows the painful price of freedom\, on the battlefields and inside A merican homes. Remember Us is exactly the book we need&mdash\;a reminder t hat grief is universal\, that humanity knows no national or racial boundar ies\, and that we all want to be remembered\, somehow\, someway\, by someb ody.
\nABOUT THE AUTHOR:
\nRobert M. Edsel is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of five non-fiction books includ ing Rescuing da Vinci\, Saving Italy\, and The Monuments Men (also with Br et Witter)\, which served as the basis for Academy Award recipient George Clooney&rsquo\;s 2014 film. His latest book\, Remember Us: American Sacrif ice\, Dutch Freedom\, and a Forever Promise Forged in World War II\, will be published by Harper Horizon on April 29\, 2025. Mr. Edsel is a co-produ cer of the Emmy-nominated documentary film\, The Rape of Europa. He has be en honored with the Texas Medal of the Arts\; the President&rsquo\;s Call to Service Award\; the Hope for Humanity Award\, presented by the Dallas H olocaust Museum\; and the Foundation for the National Archives&rsquo\; Rec ords of Achievement Award. In 2022\, the United States Army and the Smiths onian Institution made Mr. Edsel an honorary graduate of the first Army Mo numents Officer Training Program\, an idea Mr. Edsel advocated for nearly twenty years. Mr. Edsel is also the Founder and Chairman of the Monuments Men and Women Foundation\, recipient of the National Humanities Medal\, aw arded by President George W. Bush.
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