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Mary Louise Roberts

What Soldiers Do

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Product details

  • ISBN 9780226923116
  • Weight: 482g
  • Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Apr 2014
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Description
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.
About Mary Louise Roberts
Mary Louise Roberts is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin de Siecle France and Civilization without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Post-war France, 1918-1928.