What Soldiers Do by Mary Louise Roberts
How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? The author tells the troubling story of how the US military command systematically spread - and then exploited - the myth of French women as sexually experienced and available. The resulting chaos horrified the war-weary and demoralized French population.
"In this vivid account of Gls in wartime France, Mary Louise Roberts documents how the Greatest Generation was sometimes as badly behaved beyond the battlefield as it was brave in combatWhat Soldiers Do is not a conventional history. It deeply-and often colorfully-textures our understanding of the experiences of men at war, the contours of mid-twentieth-century sexual (and racial) mores, and the frequently ignorant and even lurid attitudes toward other peoples that attended America's ascent to global hegemony." -David M. Kennedy, author of Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War"
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 Postwar France, 1917-1927.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226923093 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226923096 |
| Title | What Soldiers Do |
| Author | Mary Louise Roberts |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 2013-05-17 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
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