Rich Relations - David Reynolds
The American Occupation of Britain 1942-1945
KORTE INHOUD
Between 1942 and 1945 three million Americans passed through Great Britain. Most were young men in their early twenties, away from home for the first time. They left a country pulling out of its worst-ever depression. They came to the heart of a great but waning empire battered by war. The Brits said the Yanks were "oversexed, overpaid, overfed, and over here." GIs claimed that the Limeys were "undersexed, underpaid, underfed, and under Eisenhower." Using a wealth of documents from all over America and Britain, as well as numerous interviews with survivors, David Reynolds explores the ride variety of relationships among pushy, homesick GIs, uprooted, overworked British women, and bored Allied soldiers. He reconstructs the unique world of U.S. aircrews commuting between life and death. And he also examines how Churchill's government and the U.S. Army managed this largest-ever encounter between Americans and British. Of particular interest are their attempts to impose racial segregation on a society with no col...
