Gore Vidal London: Abacus, 2002, £10.99, p/b Once upon a time collections of essays by Gore Vidal would appear every few years or so in this country in those neat little Panther paperbacks: On Our Own Now (1976), Matters of Fact and of Fiction (1978), Pink Triangle and Yellow Star (1982) for example. The […]
Dick Russell Carroll and Graf, New York, 1992 This is one of the most interesting JFK assassination books to have emerged from the movie and 30th anniversary tie-in crop. Given the vast amount of attention paid to Gerald Posner’s ‘Oswald did it after all!’ apologia, Case Closed, it is unfortunate that Russell’s book still hasn’t […]
[…] of 1942, that Germany would win the War and that the defeat of the Russians would be a victory for Christian civilisation. He was confident that once Hitler was dead, Nazism would mature into the sort of fascism that the Church could comfortably accommodate itself to. Hitler would, he hoped, be replaced with someone […]
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke I.B.Tauris, London, 1992, £9.95. In his last paragraph the author concludes: ‘Books written about Nazi occultism between 1960 and 1975 were typically sensational and under-researched. A complete ignorance of the primary sources was common to most authors and inaccuracies and wild claims were repeated by each newcomer to the genre until an abundant […]
The incompetence which has been the hallmark of the world’s ‘most powerful man’ has left the world with a legacy we can only begin to rub our eyes at: George W. Bush’s successful derailing of concerted action on climate change; an energy crisis; a $3 trillion war (that’s just the cost to the Americans of […]
[…] and consequently remained unpublished.) In the run up to the Gulf conflict, extensive use was made of the media to demonise Saddam Hussein as either a new Hitler, or a madman; or, ideally, a combination of both. (It is interesting to note that before transforming Saddam into a ‘bad guy’, the same media had […]
Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust Ed. David Bankier New York: Enigma Books, 2006. p/b, $23 US Intelligence and the Nazis Richard Breitman et al New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, p/b, £16.99 On 11 January 1943, the British intercepted ‘one of the most extraordinary messages’ of the war at Bletchley Park: it referred ‘to […]
[…] of the Elders of Zion. With Butler at that meeting was David Irving. Irving last came to widespread public attention when he produced a book arguing that Hitler didn’t know anything about the ‘Final Solution’ – it had all been done behind his back by the SS. That this is a spectacularly difficult thesis […]
[…] be prophet, came for Germany it took the shape of the Third Reich. It is telling, revealing a certain consistency in crisis of Western civilisation, that Adolph Hitler, like Rhodes before him, was fascinated with the example of the Society of Jesus which served as a model for the S.S..(41) The need for an […]
[…] for Jewish interests and Jewish interests alone. I make that statement because I know it to be true, and I go further and say that if Adolf Hitler had not been anti-Jewish there would have been no war between Germany and this country… I don’t accept that Jewish people in this country are entitled […]
