Tells a story that countradicts the grand, heroic narratives of how the US liberated France starting with D-Day. Drawing on new research, Roberts shows how the USmilitary lured GIs onto the beaches on D-Day with the promise of sex and romance with waiting, appreciative French women. The results were generally anything but romantic: prostitution and veneral disease became major problems, and there were significant numbers of GIs raping French citizens. This behavior, according to Roberts, reflected a bigger problem of our ...
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Tells a story that countradicts the grand, heroic narratives of how the US liberated France starting with D-Day. Drawing on new research, Roberts shows how the USmilitary lured GIs onto the beaches on D-Day with the promise of sex and romance with waiting, appreciative French women. The results were generally anything but romantic: prostitution and veneral disease became major problems, and there were significant numbers of GIs raping French citizens. This behavior, according to Roberts, reflected a bigger problem of our military's perspective when the US and France began to negotiate sovereignty for the country after the War."
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