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  • SHEER MISERY
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    SHEER MISERY
    MARY LOUISE ROBERTS
    Marching across occupied France in 1944, American GI Leroy Stewart had neither death nor glory on his mind: he was worried about his underwear, which was engaged in a relentless crawl of its own. Similar complaints of physical discomfort pervade infantrymen’s memories of the European theater, whether the soldiers were British, American, German, or French. Wet, freezing misery w...

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  • DISRUPTIVE ACTS
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    DISRUPTIVE ACTS
    MARY LOUISE ROBERTS
    In fin-de-siècle France, politics were in an uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before. Into this maelstrom stepped the "new women," a group of primarily urban, middle-class French women who became the objects of intense public scrutiny. Some remained single, some entered nontraditional marriages, and some took up the professions of medicine and law, journalism and teach...

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  • D-DAY THROUGH FRENCH EYES
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    D-DAY THROUGH FRENCH EYES
    MARY LOUISE ROBERTS
    A gripping account of what it was like to be in the midst of the Norman Invasion on D-Day and immediately afterward.    Silent parachutes dotting the night sky—that’s how one woman in Normandy in June 1944 learned that the D-Day invasion was underway. Though they yearned for liberation, the people of Normandy steeled themselves for further warfare, knowing that their homes, lan...

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  • WHAT SOLDIERS DO
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    WHAT SOLDIERS DO
    MARY LOUISE ROBERTS
    How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly—but if you’re the US Army in 1944, you also try another tack: you dangle the lure of beautiful French women, waiting just on the other side of the wire, read...

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  • CIVILIZATION WITHOUT SEXES
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    CIVILIZATION WITHOUT SEXES
    MARY LOUISE ROBERTS
    In the raucous decade following World War I, newly blurred boundaries between male and female created fears among the French that theirs was becoming a civilization without sexes. This new gender confusion became a central metaphor for the War's impact on French culture and led to a marked increase in public debate concerning female identity and woman's proper role. Mary Louise...

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