An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List
372. The Birth of British Fascism
September 24, 2023
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Books Referenced
Author: Martin Pugh
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Described as 'the definitive book on this' regarding British fascism and the threat it posed to Britain
Author: Henry Williamson
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Mentioned as 'that much-loved children's book' and 'classic sort of fictions of the English countryside for children,' noting the author's flirtation with fascism
Author: John Carey
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Described as a 'great literary critic in his book' which was 'a massive dissection of the Bloomsbury group' and discussed proto-fascist cultural imagination
Author: H. Rider Haggard
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Referenced in discussion of 'the fiction of empire, and this obsession with manliness, with proving yourself'
Author: Anonymous (fraudulent)
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Described as 'a kind of a racist anti-Semitic fantasy' that newspapers were full of reports about in 1920-1921, and which The Times ran articles about
Author: John Buchan
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Mentioned as one of Buchan's 'thrilling spy stories' that contained ideas about Jewish financiers and conspiracies
Author: John Buchan
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Mentioned alongside The 39 Steps as one of Buchan's spy stories reflecting paranoid conspiracy theories of the era
Author: H.C. McNeile (Sapper)
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Mentioned as 'thrillers that I used to love when I was a boy, which are very, very anti-Semitic, very anti-Bolshevik, very paranoid' about demobilized officers
Author: Arnold Spencer-Leese
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Described as 'his masterwork' published the same year he set up the Imperial Fascist League, jokingly compared to Mein Kampf
Author: Adolf Hitler
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Mentioned in comparison to Arnold Spencer-Leese's book on camels, implying it's 'a better read' than Hitler's work