What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France by Roberts, Mary Louise - 2014-04-15

University of Chicago Press, 2014-04-15. paperback. Like New. 6x1x9.

pb. Fair. Obviously worn, but no text pages missing. May have highlighting and marginalia, but markings do not interfere with readability. Textbooks do not have accompanying CDs or access codes. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC.

US: University Of Chicago Press, 2014. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. 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-bu t 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. That's not the picture of the Greatest Generation that we've been given, bu t it's the one Mary Louise Roberts paints to devastating effect in What Sol diers Do. Drawing on an incredible range of sources, including news reports , propaganda and training materials, official planning documents, wartime d iaries, and memoirs, Roberts tells the fascinating and troubling story of… Read More

Chicago, IL: University Of Chicago Press, 2014. 1st. softcover. Very Good/Very Good. 368 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 470036

Paperback. Like New.

University Of Chicago Press, 2014 Book. Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Minor reading wear. Pencil MARKINGS in text. Otherwise a square, tight book. Index. xii, 351 pp..

Paperback / softback. New. 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.

Paperback / softback. New. 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.

UNIV OF CHICAGO PR. New. Special order direct from the distributor

Univ of Chicago Pr, 2014. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 351 pages. 8.50x5.75x0.75 inches.