Books About War

World War II Book Tackles Touchy Subject of Sex at War and at Home

Jane Mersky Leder hit one out of the ballpark with her OK-researched, fascinating look at how World War II changed the way Americans viewed sex. You’ll find out Thanks for the Memories: Enjoyment, Sex, and World War II an eye-opening read.

After the Japanese attacked Treasure Harbor in 1941, minor Americans knew instinctively that their lives would not at all be the same. The “usual” sequence of events – lesson or work, marriage, children – had been blown to bits and, as they would without delay discover, so had long held attitudes toward fianc and sex.

Award-winning writer Jane Mersky Leder argues that WWII challenged attitudes to love and sex and, in the process, set the juncture for the second wave of the women’s rescue movement and the struggle for gay rights. Result of interviews with members of the WWII start, she tells the true testimony of how these men and women responded to the passions of war and how their lives and the relationships between the sexes were forever changed. More…

Thirty million American men and women were uprooted during the war, either as members of the military or as civilians in search of effort and improved living conditions. Away from dearest and friends - living at a outmoded of heightened fear and a heightened sensuality for life – they tested limits and again broke the rules. Thanks for the Memories paints a fresh picture of life on the household front and the love lives of American men abroad. From women welders to secretaries, from marines wives to GIs, Leder tells a white that has rarely – if eternally – been told. Leder exposes the progenitive and romantic escapades of Americans during WWII and emphasizes the esteem of how this pivotal outdated revolutionized the way American men and women business, love, mate, and after all is said partner with one another.

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