Remaking the Conquering Heroes: The Social and Geopolitical Impact of the Post-War American Occupation of Germany (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312234003)

Remaking the Conquering Heroes shows that American policymakers and Army officers had to confront and take control over a lawless US military in the aftermath of World War II. Money laundering, theft, racial antagonism between black and white GIs, unregulated sex, and high rates of venereal disease threatened to undermine American authority in occupied Germany as much as Soviet-American conflict. Willoughby argues that it was the creative, if disorganized, reaction of American officials in Germany that helped create both a foreign policy framework and more inclusive, familial military establishment capable of consolidating and extending US power during the Cold War.

Author: J. Willoughby
ISBN-10: 0312234007
ISBN-13: 9780312234003
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 03/09/2001
Pages: 187
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.90w x 0.74d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 255
Choice 11/01/2001 pg. 568