The Strategerist is excited to welcome New York Times best-selling author of The Monuments Men Robert M. Edsel, for a live podcast recording on Monday, April 14. He’ll join host Andrew Kaufmann and Jason Galui, Director of Veterans and Military Families at the Bush Institute, to discuss his upcoming book Remember Us: American Sacrifice, Dutch Freedom and a Forever Promise Forges in World War II.
About the book:
Remember Us begins in the pre-dawn hours of Hitler’s invasion of Western Europe on May 10, 1940, when his forces rolled into the small province of Limburg in the Netherlands, shattering more than 100 years of peace. After enduring more than four years of occupation, the Dutch people saw their freedom restored when American forces reached Limburg in September 1944. This marked the final portion of the Allies’ liberation of Western Europe before their advance on Nazi Germany was halted.
Remember Us a compelling ensemble narrative that chronicles the lives of twelve central characters over a six-year span including Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cole, the first member of the 101st Airborne to receive the Medal of Honor; Sergeant Jeff Wiggins of the 960th Quartermaster Company, who escaped the poverty and racism of Alabama only to face a new indignity: digging graves in wartime Europe; and Frieda van Schäik, a teenager who falls in love with an American soldier.