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 Brit...
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2001 Uitgever: Phoenix 592 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 184212112X ISBN-13: 9781842121122