Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

6 best books like Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe (John Boswell): The Persian Boy, Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her, The Confessions of Young Nero, Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two, Mordred, Bastard Son, Get Out or Die

The Persian Boy

Author	Mary Renault
ISBN	0394751019

“It takes skill to depict, as Miss Renault has done, this half-man, half Courtesan who is so deeply in love with the warrior.”–The Atlantic Monthly

The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander’s life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas was...

Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her

Author

Melanie Rehak

A plucky “titian-haired” sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women’s libbers) to enter the pantheon of American girlhood. As beloved by girls today...

The Confessions of Young Nero

Author	Margaret George
ISBN	0451473388

The New York Times bestselling and legendary author of Helen of Troy and Elizabeth I now turns her gaze on Emperor Nero, one of the most notorious and misunderstood figures in history.

Built on the backs of those who fell before it, Julius Caesar's imperial dynasty is only as strong as the next...

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

Author	Allan Bérubé
ISBN	0743210719

This was a fascinating, and sometimes heartbreaking and infuriating, look at the GLBT men and women who came out while serving in the armed forces during WWII. It includes information on being gay on the home front as well.

In the 1940's, sodomy was a criminal act in the United States. Although...

Mordred, Bastard Son

Author	Douglas Clegg
ISBN	1555839878

Traitor. Exile. Lover of Men.

“My mother is the Witch-Queen Morgan le Fay and my father, King Arthur. Merlin foretold that if a son like me were born to Arthur, his kingdom would be destroyed. By birthright, I am heir to the throne stolen from my mother…” In this spellbinding novel of dangerous...

Get Out or Die

Author	Jane Finnis
ISBN	1590581954

Roman Britain in 91 AD is a raw frontier province, a troublesome part of the mighty Empire ruled by Domitian Caesar. Though it is almost fifty years since the legions invaded, many native tribes still hate their conquerors and seize any chance to harass the Roman settlers who are flocking in to colonise...