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At Ease: Navy Men of World War II 2007 Wall Calendar | 
 enlarge | Author: Evan Bachner
Publisher: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 90610
Format: Illustrated
Media: Calendar
Edition: Wal
Pages: 34
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 11.9 x 11.7 x 0.1
ISBN: 0810977761
EAN: 9780810977761
ASIN: 0810977761
Publication Date: August 1, 2006
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 Very cool July 12, 2007
Carl L. Adams (Chesapeake, VA USA)
I like this calendar. It shows what the Navy was back in World War II and being a Verteran myself but from the early 2000's, it's interesting to see all the changes and some of the things that still exist.
Really cool. I hope a new one comes out for 2008.
Not Prurient At All February 12, 2007
Stuffed Animal (Kansas City, Missouri United States)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The extreme heterosexism of the first reviewer must've made him suffer from optical illusions. Neither men nor women will get erections looking at this calendar. It's a respectful tribute to our fighting men in WWII.
SOFT PORN? NO - HUMAN AFFECTION December 4, 2006
J. J. Smith (Illinois)
If you have a dirty mind, I suppose you could read these pictures as soft porn. I read them differently. My dad served in both the Army and the Air Force during WWII and he had pictures not unlike these. It was a time when men, straight, gay, whatever, could express physical affection without being labeled, and without it being read as implicitly sexual. If the pictures selected for this calendar and the book have an agenda, it's to show some brief glimpses of a time when right wing sickos weren't dominating the media with their visions of evil in every human interaction outside the ones they approve of. This is a valuable document of a vanished time and the brave and beautiful men who lived in it.
 soft porn; pathetic August 15, 2006
americangadfly (Arlington, VA USA)
6 out of 32 found this review helpful
If you're a naval history reader or someone who enjoys books on the "greatest generation," it's important to point out that this product is fundamentally political in nature, and apparently calculated as a sort of campy joke on the military book-buying public.
Every photo has been selected for its homoerotic suggestiveness: sleek, muscled backs and long strong legs of sailors in bizarrely close physical proximity, camped out on flight decks, and generally crawling on top of each other.
This is a work of homosexual soft-pornography, framed with an almost campy Village People "In the Navy" subtext that insults the innocent ingenuousness of the Navy veteran of World War II. The gallant subjects of these photos are mere foils for the author's political message and prurient interest in male beefcake.
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