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RealThomas777's avatar

I want to very much QUALIFY this post by explaining my...RELUCTANCE...as it were to drop general BOOK recs. I don't want to sound meanspirited or short, but there's a tendency among intellectually curious people to believe (subconsciously or not) that EVERYTHING that is opaque in history or the POLITICAL realm of man's existence is somehow to be found in a BOOK - it ISN'T. You WILL not find, ''THE BIG BOOK of HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM and WHY YOU SHOULD NOT ABIDE the STATE RELIGION''. NOR will you find a 200 page volume of, ''WHAT the ALLIES LIED ABOUT and WHAT REALLY HAPPENED in WORLD WAR II''. Books are a TOOL - the HISTORIAN, the ANALYST, the REVISIONIST utilizes TOOLS to construct the TRUTH of the PAST and the PRESENT - just as a carpenter uses a hammer and a saw to build a HOUSE. End of SERMON. - T

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Melancholy Yuga's avatar

*has picture of Yockey for the article

*Doesn't list Imperium.

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Nils Wegner's avatar

It's somewhat consistent, though, since »Imperium« was derived from Spengler and Schmitt to a large degree. So they were on the reading list of dissident FPY.

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Melancholy Yuga's avatar

Schmitt? really? I've read Imperium but not schmitt so excuse my ignorance.

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Paul Rothwell's avatar

"Books are a TOOL - the HISTORIAN, the ANALYST, the REVISIONIST utilizes TOOLS to construct the TRUTH of the PAST and the PRESENT - just as a carpenter uses a hammer and a saw to build a HOUSE."

Since there is no "Truth", and History is Not about the Past, all any historian can do is use their intellectual tools to develop and present an interpretive instrument which can only be an historical construct. If a book is a "tool" it can no more offfer the "Truth" than can a house.

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RealThomas777's avatar

‘‘There is no ‘TRUTH’’ is pure sophistry. There ARE in fact ‘‘TRUE’’ statements and there are LIES contra those TRUE statements.

ONE of the missions of historical REVISIONISM is to rebut LIES that are promulgated by REGIME authorities vis a vis the HISTORICAL record.

The state of CURRENT information technology has allowed DISSIDENTS/Revisionist authors to BREAK the monopoly on dissemination of historical narratives, conferred upon REGIME actors (first among them, LEGACY media) by the BULLY PULPIT and the exclusivity (and perceived legitimacy) that such institutionalized power rendered.

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Paul Rothwell's avatar

Thank you for your response.

‘‘There is no ‘TRUTH’’ is pure sophistry."

No. It's pure fact. Like the fact that your response is a false premise.

Not only is your response based on the false premise that my factual statement is a fallacious argument, ie; sophistry, but the rest of your comment is based on confusing the word "fact" with the word "truth."

I did not say there are no facts. I said there is no truth.

And the fact that there is no truth is exactly why we can question an historical interpretation and replace it with one that is more fact-based and reliable.

I have no problem with the use of the word "truth" as a synonym for "fact." It happens all the time and will continue to happen. But that is a different thing than using the word "truth" as an abstract absolute, ie; the final word. Especially in regard to History.

For example, you wrote: "There ARE in fact ‘‘TRUE’’ statements and there are LIES contra those TRUE statements."

Which I would rewrite, There are factual statements and there are lies contra those factual statements. In short, when it comes to History, it's best to stick to the facts.

Let the liars talk about "the truth." That way we can better expose their lies.

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Blue Eyes Huwhyte Dragon's avatar

So you're just admitting that there is truth?

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John Lake's avatar

Source!?

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Imperium Press's avatar

May I humbly suggest the Imperium Press edition of Maistre's Major Works vol. I. The Lively edition has excerpts of many works but we've collected his three most important political texts in their entirety, plus an introduction from the late Dr. Thomas Bertonneau of SUNY, a traditional Catholic, on Maistre's challenge to liberalism:

https://www.imperiumpress.org/shop/maistre-major-works-vol-i/

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Wulfstan I Archbishop of York's avatar

I would shell out a decent amount monthly to crowdfund titles like these on audiobook with a good narrator (maybe someone with a heavy Chicago accent idk). I work a hard job with my hands all day and don't have much time for idle reading. Just saying, you do know cats in the publishing business......

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Unreconstructed Yeoman's avatar

Seconded

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Patrick Nees's avatar

Recommendation: if they are available on kindle, you can use speechify to read the book to you.

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Nebelwerfer's avatar

I remember finding an extremely beat-up copy of Toland's Hitler biography in my grandparent's basement as a kid. It's a fairly long book, but not a tough read, the writing is pretty engaging. Really gets the synapses firing.

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James Salerno's avatar

Just read Buchanan's Unnecessary War very recently. Reading that in the context of NATO and Ukraine is alarming. The build-up to both of these wars is identical.

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Danway's avatar

Same players playing both sides AGAIN! No. More. Brother. Wars.

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MEGA's avatar

I picked up a hard back 2 volume toland at the used bookstore for $15. I stacked it with some Nietzsche and Mishima and the clerk was alarmed.

Another “revisionist” historian that is fun to read is Claude Bowers. He’s got a series on American history and his “tragic era” about reconstruction relates the perfidy of the republicans in destroying the south.

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Everyman's avatar

A key element of praxis is mastery of one’s emotional reactions. Meditations of Marcus Aurelius would be a fine addition.

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Orange Monke's avatar

Any of you goys have Civil War book recommendations? My library has Shelby Foote, which I think I will start with. I have read very little on the subject but want to start.

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RealThomas777's avatar

There's TWO War Between the States books on the LIST. Fleming and Shaara.

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Unreconstructed Yeoman's avatar

Forrest and his Critter Company by Lytle

Davis' tomb defending the war

A Defense of Virginia and The Stonewall Bio by Dabney

Creed of the old South and A Southerner in the Peleponnesian war By Gildersleeve

Southern Tradition at Bay by Weaver

About a zillion resources on The Abbeville Institute website

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Orange Monke's avatar

Thanks a bunch.

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TheWayoftheSith's avatar

For fiction I recommend giving these a try: Civil War Two, Serpents Walk, and Hold Back This Day.

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RealThomas777's avatar

HOLD BACK THIS DAY - by ‘‘MENTAL’’ Ward Kendall = GARBAGE/TOILET PAPER, unintentional COMEDY

CIVIL WAR II - by Thomas Chittum - CHITTUM was a fascinating guy, and an IMPORTANT figure in the OLD RESISTANCE. Was an early adapter too vis a vis INTERNET. CWII is DATED - and NOT particularly relevant to the current political situation (I mean in diagnostic/predictive terms and other aspects), but worth a LOOK for the reasons I suggested.

SERPENTS WALK by Randolph D. Calverhall (pseudonym of Muhammad Abd al Rahman Barker) is DOPE - absolutely my FAVORITE WNist/NS Old Resistance underground NOVEL. FAR superior to THE TURNER DIARIES, HUNTER and the like.

Calverhall was a linguist/cultural anthropologist with a STRONG interest in ISLAM and comparative Theology. Was a STAUNCH and uncompromising REVISIONIST who put in work at the IHR over a long tenure. FASCINATING guy.

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Jason McGinty's avatar

Yes start with Shelby Foote. His trilogy is excellent.

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An American Writer & Essayist's avatar

Two years late, but Bruce Catton’s The Army of the Potomac Trilogy. I don’t have it myself, but it seems interesting.

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Kiyan Kurji's avatar

Where is a good place to get David Irving’s books? They are not cheap on amazon and hard to find elsewhere.

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LadyofShalott's avatar

I just bought a signed first edition of Volume 1 of Irving’s ‘Churchill’s War’ on ebay - definitely worth having a look there.

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Past Dispatches's avatar

Libgen has most of them

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Jorn Haga's avatar

I've always purchased mine off Irving's website. Yes they are not inexpensive anywhere. Bit very worth the cost

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LadyofShalott's avatar

Really interesting list!! - much to feed the mind. Thrilled to see Irving in there. I would have included Solzhenitsyn, but that’s just me. I know it is literally impossible to find a physical copy of ‘200 Years Together...’ Spencer Quinn does provide an overview of the banned text in Antelope Hill’s ‘Solzhenitsyn - an Introduction’ which came out in 2021. Skeptical Waves also did an audio-book version on Odysee some months’ ago. Many thanks 🙏

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Fast Fashion's avatar

Hey, I can actually check one of those books off the list!

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MakerOfNoise's avatar

I read Armor a long time ago. Still remember it well. "You brought war shit?!"

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Alice England's avatar

Excellent list thank you. I’ve read a few of them but will definitely treat myself to others. David Irving’s book is excellent.

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arete's avatar

sere here

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Frrn's avatar

T h a n k y o u v e r y m u c h

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dark age sage's avatar

I would also add Paul Gottfried's "multiculturalism and the politics of guilt" which is the most throw explanation and critique of what's going on in the world. As well as James Burnham's "the managerial revolution"

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