“I felt the thing that was always denied in our dewy-eyed nostalgia was any element of desire,” Luke Turner says of his new book Men at War, which reveals a different side to the men on the front lines
In March 1942, Commando Micky Burn looked over his troop and had a “hideous shock”. He’d briefly caught sight of “Bill Gibson’s face”, he wrote in his memoir, and suddenly “knew he’d be killed”. The day before Operation Chariot, the most dangerous raid of the Second World War, Bill Gibson wrote to his father: “I can only hope that by laying down my life the generations to come might in some way remember us, and also benefit by what we have done.” Burn’s premonition was a true one.
TW: What so striking about the book is the desire you mainly focus on is queer. And by doing that you show that manhood, that word “men” in the title, was actually much more fluid than we’re led to believe. “I wanted to look at the true breadth of their experience, and to include sex in that. I felt the thing that was always denied in our dewy-eyed nostalgia was any element of desire” – Luke Turner
LT: I’m not a historian, so I was never going to write a traditional history book, and I think the relationship that we have in Britain with the Second World War is very personal. So I wanted to unpick that. “There are two aspects to the book: my own fascination with the war, and also being someone who isn’t heterosexual. I wanted to show that those two things don’t have to be separate” – Luke Turner
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