Reynolds' readable and scholarly yet entertaining book explores the rich variety of relations between pushy, homesick American GIs, famously lampooned as 'over-paid, over-sexed, over-fed and over here' and their British hosts - 'under-sexed, under-paid, under-fed and under Eisenhower' - during the Second World War. This clever blend of military and social history is the result of relentless research of massive archival and oral sources. David Reynolds balances his study of government and military policies with a vivid, impressionistic account of the formal and informal relationships between the occupiers and the occupied. 'This is an important and original contribution to our understanding of the Second World War.' - John Keegan, "Daily Telegraph".
- ISBN10 184212112X
- ISBN13 9781842121122
- Publish Date 7 December 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 August 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 592
- Language English