Compassionate analysis of homosexuality in the Canadian military
Review by Heather Smith / June 22, 2010 / 3 min read
Paul Jackson’s One of the Boys is a complex, layered, and compassionate analysis of homosexuality in the Canadian military during World War II. Through careful and painstaking research, using archival evidence including court martial proceedings and interviews, he writes into World War II a social history of homosexuality in the Canadian Forces—a social history that had been, as he notes, ignored by military historians.