Queen and country

Emma Vickers is Senior Lecturer in History at Liverpool John Moores University

• Introduction1. Inclusion2. Keeping up appearances3. Playing away4. Make do and mendConclusionBiographies of intervieweesBibliographyIndex

'This empirically rich study adds a new chapter to the history of homosexuality in the context of the Second World War. Fascinating in its detail, Queen and country shows how the very attempt to regulate same-sex intimacies and desires gave rise to new sexual identities and queer communities.'Laura Doan, author of Disturbing Practices: History, Sexuality, and Women’s Experience of Modern War|Vickers neatly embeds the empirical detail – the bulk of the book under review – within the wider corpus on the subject of gender and history and she is to be commended for an excellent, scholarly study that will surely propel further scholarship., Matthew Hughes, War in History 21(3), Book Review: Queen and Country: Same-Sex Desire in the British Armed Forces, 1939-1945 by Emma Vickers, 4 June 2014‘Emma Vickers has produced a rich and humane study of World War Two service personnel which significantly expands our understanding of “gay” people and the reaction of “ordinary people” to them before gay lib in the 1970s.’Brian Dempsey, James Morgan Brown Review