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