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

In the book's second half, Roberts explores the varied sexual encounters that American soldiers had with French women, the circumstances that brought the parties together, and the Franco-American tensions and miscarriages of justice that resulted from wartime desperation and Franco-American misunderstandings. [...]of these and other encounters, American soldiers became, in Roberts's analysis, obsessed with French sexual attitudes.