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Historical person
1881–1948
Noel Pemberton Billing was a British aviator, aircraft designer, politician and publisher known for sensational nationalist campaigns during the First World War. His newspaper alleged a vast German-controlled network of sexual and political corruption, and his 1918 libel trial with Maud Allan became a notorious display of conspiracy theory and homophobia.
In Pat Barker’s The Eye in the Door, W. H. R. Rivers treats Prior and other officers while the public campaign led by Noel Pemberton Billing turns homosexuality and dissent into evidence of German conspiracy.
Series
The Regeneration Trilogy follows soldiers, doctors, poets and civilians during the final two years of the First World War. Its central relationship is between the neurologist and army psychiatrist W. H. R. Rivers and the fictional working-class officer Billy Prior, while Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves and…
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