Dimensions
145 x 225 x 22mm
The Classic Account of a Homosexual in 1950s Britain
In March 1954, London journalist Peter Wildeblood, was one of five men charged with homosexual acts in the notorious Montagu case. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison, along with Lord Montagu and Major Michael Pitt-Rivers. The other two men were set free after turning Queen's Evidence.
This autobiography tells the story of Peter Wildeblood's childhood, his war service and university days, his life as a journalist, his arrest, trial and imprisonment, and finally his return to freedom. It provides testimony to the inhumanity of the treatment of homosexuals in Britain only a generation ago.
