cover image Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two

Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two

Allan Berube. Plume Books, $12.95 (400pp) ISBN 978-0-452-26598-1

Berube uses documents and interviews with gay veterans to explain how the military purged servicemen and -women on the basis of homosexuality during WW II and how these policies were publicly challenged later by military psychiatrists. ``This evenhanded study brings into sharp focus an important chapter in American social history,'' said PW . (Apr.)