112 Gripes about the French: The 1945 Handbook for American GIs in Occupied France

When American troops arrived in Paris at the end of World War II, they were at first welcomed by the local population. However, the French soon began to resent the Americans for their brashness and display of wealth, while the Americans found the French and their habits equally irritating and incomprehensible: they bathed too little, drank too much, and were almost unfailingly unfriendly.

To bridge the cultural divide, the War Department commissioned humorist Leo Rosten to write this surpri...