but they have been written with the interests of the racially conscious reader in mind. They provide a reliable synopsis of the contents of each book and an evaluation of its salient features.
The prices are as low as National Vanguard Books. which is a non-profit operation. can make them. Many are substantially reduced from the publishers’ original prices.
Some books are essential to a basic understanding of the task facing us as a people. Others are also important. but primarily for filling in the details. The following guide is for those readers who want to be sure that they read all of the really essential books. and then as many of the others as their time and pocketbooks will permit. and who want to read them in a logical sequence.
HISTORY — We should base our study
History on a knowledge of European prehistory. That is. before we begin compartmentalizing into Greek history. Roman history. German history. English history. and so on. we should understand the common racial. linguistic. and cultural roots of all of our Aryan ancestors. We should see the racial and tribal patterns in ancient Europe before we become distracted by national patterns.
The text and maps of McEvedy’s Atlas of Ancient History give an excellent. concise overview of European and Middle Eastern prehistory. Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe and The Beaker Folk give a view of pre-Aryan continental Europe. and Prehistoric Avebury and Stonehenge look at the Megalithic Era of prehistory in the British Isles. In Search of the Indo-Europeans provides an excellent introduction to the study of Aryan origins.
After that one can focus on specific
For the Celts there is Chadwick’s The Celts. For phone number list the Germanic peoples there are Jones’ History of the Vikings. The Long-Haired Kings. The Anglo-Saxons. and History of the Goths.
Tacitus’ fascinating Agricola and Germania. combined in one volume. and Caesar’s Conquest of Gaul give views of the life of both the Celts and the Germans of two millennia ago.
Moving into the historical era. Ancient Greece and The Penguin History of Greece provide a good overview of Hellenic civilization. More details are found in Herodotus’ Histories. the books on Alexander’s conquests by Arrian and Curtius. the treatments of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides and Xenophon. and Livy’s excellent books on Roman history (four of which are listed in the catalog). These for the love of literacy–better world books and the internet archive unite to preserve millions of books can be supplemented by Kitto’s The Greeks and Barrow’s The Romans. which give excellent character sketches of the two peoples. Plato’s The Republic and The Laws give a taste of the Classical-Pagan view of the world — which in many ways was both more Aryan and more modern than the Medieval-Christian view which followed it.
Essential for the study of the Middle
Ages is McEvedy’s Atlas of Medieval History. The story of the supplanting of Roman power by German power is told especially well in Bury’s Invasion of email data Europe by the Barbarians. A good general survey is provided by Everyday Life in Medieval Times. Dealing with events on the Continent are The History of the Franks. Chronicles of the Crusades. and Bury’s History of the Later Roman Empire.