Just Beneath the Soil

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller How the Word Is Passed takes us on an astonishingly original—and heartbreakingly intimate—journey to meet some of World War II's witnesses before they're gone. “This is a riveting, serious tour de force.” —Ken Burns Clint Smith’s great-uncle Lawrence landed on a beach at Normandy in early June of 1945. Lawrence grew up in Jim Crow Mississippi, and Smith had always wondered what his uncle felt, fighting fascism and racial hatred on behalf of a countr