What Soldiers Do: Sex And The American Gi In World War Ii France

What do soldiers do presents a devastating new perspective on the Greatest Generation and the liberation of France, one in which the US military used 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.--Page 4 of cover.

• | Author: Mary Louise Roberts
• | Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 15, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 351 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0226923118
• | ISBN-13: 9780226923116