Against The Law
$27.97
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
26 November 2019
Summary
‘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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474612524 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474612520 |
| Author: | Peter Wildeblood |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 26 November 2019 |
| Weight: | 189g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 20mm |
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The noblest, and wittiest, and most appalling prison book of them all– New Statesman
A moving story of men who refused to feel ashamed - Telegraph
The noblest, and wittiest, and most appalling prison book of them all - New StatesmanAbout The Author
Peter Wildeblood
Born 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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