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Informació de l'obraThe Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler de Chris Bryant
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. I did not get very far into this book at all. There is an introduction, which I think summarises the book, and then the author just starts describing guys. I got through the guy who came back from North Africa and got halfway through the guy who was [a:Barbara Cartland|10320|Barbara Cartland|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1363041660p2/10320.jpg]'s brother (?) and I had no idea what they had to do with anything so I stopped reading. It's partly because the MPs the book is about are in the Conservative Party and so they don't stand for much that means anything to me. ( ) This was a fascinating book about a loosely organised group of British politicians who first mobilised to oppose Hitler and his rule of Germany, and recognised its threat to Europe more widely and to the UK more specifically. Many, but by no means all, in this group were queer, some more openly than others, and when Neville Chamberlain and his underlings started referring to them as "glamour boys", the homophobic slur there was clear. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
We like to think we know the story of how Britain went to war with Germany in 1939, but there is one part of the story that has never been told. It features a group of MPs who repeatedly spoke out against their party and their government's policy of appeasing Hitler and Mussolini. Remarkably, nearly all of them were gay or bisexual. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hated them. He had them followed, harassed, spied upon and derided in the press, and called them 'the glamour boys' in reference to their sexuality. They suffered abuse, innuendo and threats of de-selection, yet they spoke out repeatedly against Hitler's territorial ambitions and his treatment of political prisoners and the Jews. In doing so they risked everything, swimming against the overwhelming tide of public opinion at a time when even the suggestion of homosexuality could land you in prison. Forced by the laws of the day to hide their true nature, they ran the danger of exposure on a daily basis. Some of them used their capacity for lying as spies. Others saw brutality in Hitler's camps first hand. Five of them died in action. Without them, this country would never have faced down the Nazis. This is their story. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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