I had it sitting in my 'to read' pile for ages before you compiled the book club list, so I would have picked it up eventually anyway, because I do believe it's important to further our knowledge on this subject.
Women are violated during wartime and conflict, all throughout time, everywhere around the globe. Just look at the interviews with young teens coming out of Ukraine right now. There doesn't seem to be any nation whose soldiers are above these abuses, regardless of which countries would treat as war crime and punish with imprisonment if later discovered. It's almost as if it's primal cruelty which some men - and perhaps most particularly found among the kind who revel in military action - can't seem to resist. I think also that for some, decency and kindness, humanity, is walled off inside them to enable them to act as soldiers in the first place and this definitely plays a part. However some men simply take whatever they want, whatever the circumstances. As with my own experience. In my case I guess I was lucky they weren't human traffickers and in the end left me behind.