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Against the Law (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781474612524)
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x'This right which I claim for myself and for all those like me is the right to choose the person whom I love' Peter Wildeblood
In March 1954 Peter Wildeblood, a London journalist, was one of five men charged with homosexual acts in the notorious Montagu case. Wildeblood was sentenced to eighteen months in prison, along with Lord Montagu and Major Michael Pitt-Rivers. The other two men were set free after turning Queen's Evidence. Against the Law tells the story of Wildeblood's childhood and schooldays, his war service, his career as a journalist, his arrest, trial and imprisonment, and finally his return to freedom. In its honesty and restraint it is eloquent testimony to the inhumanity of the treatment of gay men in Britain within living memory.Author: Peter Wildeblood
ISBN-10: 1474612520
ISBN-13: 9781474612524
Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Language: English
Published: 08/11/2020
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d
By Peter Wildeblood
xBorn in Italy, Peter Wildeblood came to London at the age of three in 1926. He won a scholarship to Oxford but left to serve in the RAF 1941-46, returning to Oxford after the war. In 1954 he was a well-known London journalist when he was jailed for homosexuality. After serving his prison sentence, he wrote a number of novels, plays and television scripts and had a key role in the decriminalisation of homosexuality. He died in 1999.
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