Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2491011 in Books
• Published on: 1999-04-01
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 388 pages

Synopsis
Based on recently declassified FBI documents and interviews with Rockwell associates and detractors, this first-time account chronicles his path from fighting Germans in World War II to founding the American Nazi Party, and the hate group's operations and odd alliances. With Rockwell's murder in 196

Customer Reviews

A good referance to a great man.
I found this an excellant book, easy to read, unbiased, and in laymans terms as opposed to one of these intellectual books no-one can understand or follow. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the early days of the far right movements as it ties in nicely with other books I have read which were further on in time but had influences from this time.
The first three chapters take you thru his early life, and then chapter four onwards takes you thru each year of his political carear, with a summary at the end of each chapter which is usefull for tieing things together.
A good biography of a great man who is still held in high regard whithin right wing politics.

A great history of the post war NS movement
Lincoln Rockwell brought to those numbed by the physical defeat of National Socialism in 1945 a radiant torch of encouragement which still shines strong today, decades later. The stature of Lincoln Rockwell shines through in this new book. Despite the rank hostility in iys advertising on its cover and the selectivity in its contents, is about as fair as can be expected from other than a sympathiser.

Though I cannot say as to the accuracy of all its details relating to the American happenings, I have to point out some errors as follows in its references to the World Union of National Socialists (WUNS), and the N.S.M. in the U.K., and Lincoln Rockwell's visit to us in 1962.

P.147 : On meeting Rockwell at Shannon airport "One of the Englishmen opened a satchel containing several firearms, which they said they were carrying in case they needed to defend themselves from Israeli kidnappers." There was no such satchel, no such guns and no such explanation

P.147 "At the time of Rockwells arrival Jordan was being prosecuted for the riotous Trafalgar Square rally and for taking part in something called the BNSM Defense Corps, an armed formation of the BNSM". THIS PROSECUTION WAS IN RESPECT OF THE SPEARHEAD, A DEFENSIVE FORMATION OF THE NSM (NOT THE BNSM) WHICH MOST CERTAINLY WAS NEVER ARMED.

P.149:"After being conveyed from the Cotswold Camp for the next four days Rockwell scurried from place to place, keeping one step ahead of Scotland Yard" NOTHING OF THE KIND ! I GOT ROCKWELL OUT OF THE CAMP, DESPITE POLICE AND PRESS SURVEILLANCE, JUST BEFORE AN IMMIGRATION OFFICIAL ENTERED THE CAMP WITH POLICE, AND I TOOK HIM TO AND LEFT HIM AT MY COVENTRY HOME FOR THOSE DAYS, GAMBLING ON THE AUTHORITIES THINKING I WOULD NEVER PARK HIM AT SUCH AN OBVIOUS PLACE.

P.150:Talk of a hundredvigilantes storming the camp, routing the campers, shreding the swastika flag with a shot-gun, and pulling dowm the tents, and with 70 Policeman intervening is untrue. A couple of local people, ostensibly badger-hunting, came into the camp accompanied by a solitary policeman who would not at first remove them. One of them got involved in a tussle with John Tyndall and one of them fired a single shot which did no substantial damage to the flag, and they were then sent offby the policeman, and that was all their was to it.

P.150: Taken by me to London for a press interview before, the purpose of his trip completed, he was immediately afterwards to go along to Scotland Yard and voluntarily submit to deportation, the author has it that "Acting on a tip, Scotland Yard sent four detectives into the heart of London, where they spotted Rockwell geting out of a car and placed him in custody." The fact is that at his interview with the Daily Mirror he told this paper that immediately afterwards he was going to the Yard, and they telephoned the Yard when he was on the way there, putting themselves in the clear.

P.151: The author there asserts that the European groups, which along with the NSM were a party to the Cotswold Agreement setting up WUNS, were "completely fictitious". On the contaryall of them existed and functioned.

Despite these errors, and the vilification on the dust jacket, and some selective concentration on adverse material, the book is interesting reading. Among its photographs is a very clear one of Lincoln Rockwell at the Cotswold Camp in company with John Tyndall, myself and others of the Spearhead formation.

THIS REVIEW WAS WRITTEN BY COLIN JORDAN AND IS QUOTED FROM HIS GOTHIC RIPPLES NEWSLETTER.

Best Biography of Rockwell
I waited until Simonelli's competing book came out before making this review. Schmaltz's book is much better, bigger, more interesting, and, although Schmaltz is no Rockwell fan, more balanced.

This is relatively unbiased biography of Rockwell's fearless attempts to gain power, exploits to gain publicity, stormtroopers, lieutenants, management difficulties, assassination, and the methods his enemies used against him.

This book takes you inside the American Nazi Party HQ with details on the inside power struggles and the abject poverty in which Rockwell and his followers lived. It also provides many interesting stories of the confrontations of with the police, hostile crowds, and college audiences. Also of interest is the illegal methods the FBI used against Rockwell and the attempts of the Jewish groups to keep the news media from reporting about Rockwell.

This fascinating book is one you'll finish. Its only weak spot is that it doesn't tell why Rockwell believed what he did. Schmaltz apparently left that for Rockwell to tell in his own book "White Power," which is still available.