Philip Hoare, "Wilde's Last Stand"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0715640828 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 1.6 mb
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0715640828 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 1.6 mb
In January 1918 the Imperialist newspaper made the startling claim that Britain was losing the war because the German secret service was blackmailing 47,000 ‘sexual deviants†in the British establishment. This account reveals how the ensuing libel trial drew Oscar Wildeâ€s friends into a posthumous battle for his reputation, and illuminates a twilight world of MPs and dancing girls, drug clubs in London and transvestites in the trenches.

