M. T. Pope: Don't Ask, Don't Tell

USA 2012, 482 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Urban
Private Kyle Sullivan is a happily married man who thinks he's left his homosexual experiences in his past. What he didn't count on was the high-ranking officer who forces a sexual relationship with him. - After breaking off a relationship with her abusive girlfriend, Lauren Burns has finally made her dreams come true by becoming a member of the U.S. ... Weiterlesen

James Lord: My Queer War

USA 2011, 344 pp., brochure, € 15.99
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In 1942, a timid, inexperienced 21-year-old James Lord reported to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to enlist in the U.S. Army. His career in the armed forces took him to Nevada and California, to Boston, to England, and eventually to France and Germany, where he witnessed first-hand the ravages of total war on Europe's land and people. Along the way he ... Weiterlesen

Paul Jackson: One of the Boys

Homosexuality in the Military during World War II. CAN/UK/USA 2010, 338 pp., brochure, € 67.99
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Homosexuality and military service have made strange bedfellows over the last century. Military leaders have generally seen homosexuals as unmanly, immoral, and - according to the U.S. military - a threat to unit cohesion, a claim that continues to prop up the controversial »don't ask, don't tell« policy. Struggles for equal rights have not been limited to the USA: during ... Weiterlesen

Bret Yerlac: Virgin Army Boy Deflowered

USA 2009, 149 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Michael Hunt was still a virgin at 20. He knew he wasn't attracted to women at all and had strong feelings for men, but had never allowed himself to partake in any experimenting with that forbidden sin of the flesh because of strict religious beliefs. So, Michael figured the solution to all his frustrations was to volunteer for the draft ... Weiterlesen

Robert Roper: Now the Drum of War

Walt Whitman and his Brothers in the Civil War. USA 2009, 423 pp., brochure, € 16.59
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Walt Whitman's work as a nurse in the Civil War profoundly affected his worldview as well as his poetry. Much less well known is the extraordinary war record of his brother George W. Whitman, who led his men in 21 battles, from Antietam to the Wilderness. At the center of the book, Roper focuses on Whitman's emotional relations with the ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Littell: The Kindly Ones

Transl. by Charlotte Mandell. UK 2009, 984 pp., brochure, € 21.60
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»Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened.« So begins the chilling fictional memoir of Dr. Maximilien Aue, a former Nazi officer who has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France. Max is a gay intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Rice: Blind Fall

USA 2009, 302pp., brochure, € 13.59
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John Houck became a Marine to become a hero. But his life changed when he failed to notice an explosive device that ended up maiming the captain of his Force Recon Company, a respected Marine who nearly sacrificed himself to save John's life. Home from Iraq, John pays a visit to his former captain, only to discover the captain has ... Weiterlesen

Reichen Lehmkuhl: Here's What We'll Say

Growing Up, Coming Out, and the U.S. Air Force Academy. USA 2007, 346 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Reichen Lehmkuhl tried to find success acting in film and TV. However, he played the biggest role of his life long before his professional acting debut , when he was forced to hide his sexuality to comply with the Air Force's »Don't Ask, Don't Tell« policy. Reichen tells his story of what happens when cadets who are committed to serving ... Weiterlesen

Reichen Lehmkuhl: Here's What He'll Say

USA 2007, 346 pp., brochure, € 13.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Reichen Lehmkuhl tried to find success acting in film and TV. However, he played the biggest role of his life long before his professional acting debut , when he was forced to hide his sexuality to comply with the Air Force's »Don't Ask, Don't Tell« policy. Reichen tells his story of what happens when cadets who are committed to serving ... Weiterlesen

Max Egremont: Siegfried Sassoon

UK 2006, 639 pp., brochure, € 18.98
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Siegfried Sassoon was born in 1886 into a comfortable and prosperous household in Kent, and began writing poetry as a boy. He confronted the terrible realities of WWI on the battlefield, in verse, and finally, in 1917, by announcing his opposition to the war. By 1918 Sassoon found himself one of the most famous young writers of the time, admired ... Weiterlesen

Rich Merritt: Secrets of a Gay Marine Porn Star

USA 2005, 468 pp., brochure, € 14.59
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Rich Marritt - the good son, the teacher's pet, Southern gentleman, model Christian student, Marine officer, and the not-so-anonymous poster boy for a »New York Times Magazine« article on gays in the military - tells the story of his complicated sexual past that caused an international scandal when »The Advocate« outed him as »The Marine Who Did Gay Porn«, putting ... Weiterlesen

Randy Shilts: Conduct Unbecoming

USA 2005, 813 pp., brochure, € 19.39
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Randy Shilts, author of the classic documentary history of the AIDS epidemic, investigated the situation of lesbians und gays in the military by interviewing hundreds of servicepeople at all levels of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. Shilts' collage of historical research, interviews, and U.S. military documents (both public and confidential) portrays in detail the vital role ... 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

Gary Lehring: Officially Gay

USA 2003, 229 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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This book follows the century-long attempt of the military to identify and exclude gays and lesbians. The author argues that military policy helped create a modern gay movement and shape the direction taken by that movement. Simultaneously, it made possible greater regulation and scrutiny of gays and lesbians both in and out of the military. The opportunity to defend one's ... 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

B.R. Burg (ed.): Gay Warriors

USA 2003, 299 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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This book, through a vivid series of pictures from the ancient to the contemporary world, presents clear evidence that homosexual desire between fighting men in most times & places has contributed to the effectiveness of armies. The modern homosexual/heterosexual distinction has changed this over the last 3 centuries, but there is every reason to expect that the rise of the ... Weiterlesen

Philippe Besson: In the Absence of Men

UK 2001, 198 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage
It is the summer of 1916 and, with German Zeppelins on the skyline, the men of Paris are off at war. For Vincent, the sixteen-year-old son of a prestigious family, the tranquillity of the city sits at odds with the salons and soirees he attends. But, after an electrifying encounter with the enigmatic writer, Marcel P, draws Vincent's desires out ... Weiterlesen

Charles Causley: Collected Poems 1951 - 2000

UK 2000, 430 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Picador
This revised collection gathers together Charles Causley's poetry spanning a period of more than fifty years and includes his most recent unpublished work as well as some of his poems for children. Charles Stanley Causley was born in Launceston in Cornwall, and spent most of his life there. After serving in the navy in the second world war (an experience ... Weiterlesen