What Soldiers Do

Sex and the American GI in World War II France

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24,95
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ISBN: 9780226923116
Uitgever: The University of Chicago Press
Verschijningsvorm: Paperback
Auteur: Mary Louise Roberts
Druk: 1
Pagina's: 368
Taal: Engels
Verschijningsjaar: 2014
NUR: Geschiedenis algemeen

What Soldiers Do presents a devastating new perspective on the Greatest Generation and the liberation of France, one in which the US military use the lure of easy, sexually available French women to sell soldiers on the invasion, thus unleashing a "tsunami of male lust" among the war-weary GIs. The resulting chaos-ranging from flagrant public sex with prostitutes to outright rape and rampant venereal disease - horrified the battered and demoralized French population and caused serious friction between the two nations at a crucial point as the war drew to a close.