Hans Warren: Secretly Inside

USA/UK 2006, 99 pp., hardbound, € 19.39
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In the Dutch countryside WW II seems far away. For most people, at least. But not for Ed, a Jew in Nazi-occupied Holland trying to find some safe sanctuary. Compelled to go into hiding in the rural province of Zeeland, he is taken in by a seemingly benevolent family of farmers. But, as Ed comes to realize, the Van 't ... Weiterlesen

Glenway Wescott: Apartment in Athens

Introduction by David Leavitt. USA 2004, 268 pp., brochure, € 38.95
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NYRB
»Apartment in Athens« (first published in 1945) concerns an unusual triangular relationship. In this story about a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who are forced to share their quarters with a German officer, gay author Wescott stages a drama of accommodation and rejection, resistance and compulsion. »Apartment in Athens« depicts a great and terrible war through the lens of everyday ... Weiterlesen

Lev Raphael: The German Money

USA 2003, 204 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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Paul has spent his life running - from New York, the city of his birth, from the beautiful love of his life, from contact with his own brother and sister, but mostly from his mother, a bitter Holocaust survivor of almost inexplicable coldness. Upon her death, the children face shocking questions. What caused the apparently healthy woman to die? Why ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The Charioteer

USA 2003, 347 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage
After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during WW II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans' hospital in England to convalesce. There he befriends the young, bright Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly. As they find solace and companionship together in the idyllic surroundings of the hospital, their friendship blooms into a discreet, chaste romance. Then one ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Bram: Hold Tight

USA 1989, 282 pp., pb., € 24.95
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Plume
Hank Fayette, Seaman Second Class, had enlisted in his Texas hometown, used his shore leave to visit a movie house on 42nd Street, and ended up in a gay brothel near Manhattan's West piers. It was the wrong place to be at the wrong time. When this big, lanky blond with a country boy's drawl - and a country boy's ... Weiterlesen

Hans Siemsen: Die Geschichte des Hitlerjungen Adolf Goers

D 2000, 239 S., Pb, € 16.50
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Männerschwarm - Bibliothek rosa Winkel 24
Hans Siemsen (1891-1969) veröffentlichte in den 20er Jahren mehrere Bände mit Erzählungen sowie Sachbücher. Viele der Geschichten handeln von Begegnungen mit Jungen (Das Tigerschiff, 1923). 1927 erschien seine Anklageschrift gegen den § 175: Verbotene Liebe. 1934 ging Siemsen aus politischen Gründen in die Emigration - in Paris entstand 1937/38 Die Geschichte des Hitlerjungen Adolf Goers.

Christopher Isherwood: The World in the Evening

USA 1999, 302 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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University of Minnesota Press
Against the backdrop of World War II, »The World in the Evening« charts the emotional development of Stephen Monk, an aimless Englishman living in California. After his second marriage suddenly ends, Stephen finds himself living with a relative in a small Pennsylvania Quaker town, haunted by memories of his pre-war gay affair with a younger man during a visit to ... Weiterlesen

Martin Sherman: Bent

USA 1998, 80 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Martin Sherman's worldwide hit play »Bent« took London by storm in 1979 when it was first perfored by the Royal court Theatre, with Ian McKellen as Max. The play itself caused an uproar. - Gays were arrested and interned at work camps and continued to be imprisoned even after the fall of the Third Reich and liberation of the camps. ... Weiterlesen

Richard Plant: The Pink Triangle

The Nazi War Against Homosexuals. USA 1986, 259 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Henry Holt
This is the first comprehensive book in English on the fate of the homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The author, a German refugee, examines the climate and conditions that gave rise to a vicious campaign against Germany's gays, as directed by Himmler and his SS - a war that resulted in tens of thousands of arrests and thousands of deaths. In ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Hodges: Alan Turing - The Enigma

The Book That Inspired the Film »The Imitation Game« USA 2014, 768 pp., pb., € 12.95
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The Biography of the brilliant Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of ghe German Enigma code and indeed was the father of the modern computer. Sentenced for gay activities he committed suicide. This book is a first-rate presentation of the life of a first-rate scientific mind. Andrew Hodges was uniquely qualified to write a biography of Alan Turing on at ... Weiterlesen