COMING OUT UNDER FIRE The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two<i> by Allan Berube(The Free Press: $22.95; 377 pp.) </i>

” . . . a rich social history that argues that much of contemporary homosexual identity, sense of community, and activism had its origin in the experience of gay men and women in World War II . . . a passionate book without ever becoming a polemical one.” --Neil Miller