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  • Men at War

  • Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945
  • By: Luke Turner
  • Narrated by: Luke Turner
  • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins

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Summary

As the Second World War moves beyond living memory and its last veterans leave us, we are in danger of losing our opportunity to understand the reality behind the conflict's myths, machines and iconography. From filmmakers, writers, artists and ordinary people (including his own family members), Luke Turner assembles a broad cast of characters to bring this much-mythologised conflict to life.

There are conscientious objectors, a bisexual Commando, a transgender RAF pilot and those who simply did what they could to survive and return home to a complicated peace. By exploring a wartime experience that embraces sex, lust and the body as much as tactics and weaponry, Turner argues that the only way we can really understand the Second World War is to get to grips with the complexity of the lives and identities of those who fought and endured it.

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©2023 Luke Turner (P)2023 Orion Publishing Group Limited
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  • Categories: LGBTQ+
Gay Studies Military
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So original and surprising I am all but speechless with admiration (THE REVEREND RICHARD COLES)
Beautiful . . . Luke Turner's tender account of servicemen's transgressive private lives, transforms our understanding of the Second World War . . . The mix of memoir, encounters with veterans and historical research is engaging and surprising. It is difficult to encapsulate the tender, forthright sensibility of Men at War; it is a loving, important work (Erica Wagner)
This tribute to the outliers and oddballs of the Second World War is a reminder that, in the very best of ways, not all men are created equal (Dan Jones)
Profound, moving and complex, Men at War is a powerful reflection on trauma and love, on humanity in adversity (BRETT ANDERSON)

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