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 hearty-researched, fascinating look at how World War II changed the way Americans viewed sex. You’ll locate Thanks for the Memories: Tenderness, Sex, and World War II an eye-opening read.

After the Japanese attacked Flower Harbor in 1941, under age Americans knew instinctively that their lives would not in the least be the same. The “universal” sequence of events – teaching or work, marriage, children – had been blown to bits and, as they would in the last discover, so had long held attitudes toward affection and sex.

Award-winning litt Jane Mersky Leder argues that WWII challenged attitudes about affection and sex and, in the process, set the stage for the following wave of the women’s releasing movement and the struggle for gay rights. Sometimes non-standard due to interviews with members of the WWII initiation, she tells the true alibi 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 m and improved living conditions. Away from blood and friends - living at a in unison a all the same of heightened fear and a heightened hanker for for life – they tested limits and over broke the rules. Thanks for the Memories paints a distinct picture of life on the about front and the love lives of American men abroad. From women welders to secretaries, from military talents wives to GIs, Leder tells a release that has rarely – if till doomsday – been told. Leder exposes the sex and romantic escapades of Americans during WWII and emphasizes the note of how this pivotal outmoded revolutionized the way American men and women labour, love, mate, and in the end partner with one another.

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