About the Author

Mary Louise Roberts is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France and Civilization without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927.

Reviews

"In this vivid account of Gls in wartime France, Mary Louise Roberts documents how the Greatest Generation was sometimes as badly behaved beyond the battlefield as it was brave in combat. What Soldiers Do is not a conventional history. It deeply-and often colorfully-textures our understanding of the experiences of men at war, the contours of mid-twentieth-century sexual (and racial) mores, and the frequently ignorant and even lurid attitudes toward other peoples that attended America's ascent to global hegemony." -David M. Kennedy, author of Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War"