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Article: Of Baths and Battlefields. (Books).(Gay Warriors: A Documentary History from the Ancient World to the Present; Bathing in Public in the Ancient World)(Book Review)
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- The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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Gay Warriors: A Documentary History from the Ancient World to the Present
Edited by B. R. Burg
NYU Press. 436 pages, $65. ($19.95 paper)
Bathing in Public in the Ancient World
by Garrett G. Fagan
University of Michigan Press. 480 pages, $65. ($27.95 paper)
CHARLES de Gaulle once said of Marshal Lyautey, one of France's greatest soldiers, "He is our only marshal with any balls on him; but it's a pity they're not always his own." Others might have said the same of Frederick the Great, Gordon of Khartoum, Lord Kitchener, Lawrence of Arabia, Lord Wavell, Alfred Redl, Joseph Gallieni, Ernst Rohm, Helmuth Moltke, Richard ...