Clint Smith, author of NYT Bestseller How the Word is Passed, continues his exploration of public memory, reckoning with the legacy of World War II, one of the most consequential events of the last century, and one that we still haven't fully faced up to.

Beneath the Soil is a memorial, a people-and-place based excavation of the non-dominant narratives of a war that continues to shape the contours of the world in order to truly grapple with the history of World War II from an international perspective.