What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France

by Mary Louise Roberts

Book Overview

How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly-but if you're the US Army in 1944, you also try another tack: you dangle the lure of beautiful French women, waiting just on the other side of the wire, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226923118
• ISBN13: 9780226923116
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"