Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines
Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines
Describes the brave young women who volunteered for the recreation-program that entertained American servicemen overseas during wartime, bringing support and eye candy to the troops while also exporting American culture abroad, from World War I to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
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To boost soldiers’ morale and remind them of the stakes of victory, the American military formalized a recreation program that sent respectable young women, along with famous entertainers, overseas. This history of the women who talked and listened, danced and sang, adds an intimate chapter to the story of war and its ties to life in peacetime.