Women’s Barracks / Three Women by Tereska Torres; March Hastings

Women’s Barracks / Three Women

Tereska Torres; March Hastings

Originally published in 1950, this account of life among female Free French soldiers in a London barracks during World War II sold four million copies in the United States alone and many more millions worldwide.

The novel is based on the real-life experiences of the author, Tereska Torres, who escaped from occupied France. She arrived as a refugee in London and joined other exiles enlisting in Charles de Gaulle’s army, then stationed in Britain awaiting an invasion of their homeland by Allied forces. But Women’s Barracks is no ordinary war story. The grim world of an urban military barracks became the setting for one of the steamiest novels of its time. Leaving ‘normal’ civilian life behind, the women enter an all-female realm, where passionate attachments soon form-between older, experienced women and young innocents, between butch officer types and their femmes subordinates. And for those with more traditional leanings, there was a city full of soldiers to be had- sometimes two or three at a time.

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Three Women: One of the best novels to come out of the golden age of lesbian pulps, this 1958 classic returns to delight a new generation of readers. Phil Carlson’s marriage proposal is 18-year-old Paula’s ticket out of the tenement and dingy life with her alcoholic father. But the dream dissolves the moment Paula meets Byrne, Phil’s wealthy aunt. Byrne, an artist who lives in Greenwich Village, is bewitched by Paula’s crush on her and daringly allows it to blossom, despite the dark secret that forever ties her to another woman.

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