Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972 Aaron J Leonard London: Repeater Books, 2023, £12.99, p/b John Newsinger In 2020 Aaron Leonard published his The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment […]

The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] state propaganda machine. This machine was the crucial factor. Similar propaganda efforts in 1941 played an important part in making Stalin the Russian emblem of defiance and Hitler the German emblem of defiance in 1945. In the British instance, the propaganda effort was decisive, not the supposed character of the man or his supposed […]

Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A Life of Jorian Jenks by Philip M. Coupland

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] The BUF was overwhelmingly urban, and the British agricultural sector was too weak socially and economically to allow British Fascists to exploit them for electoral success, as Hitler and Mussolini had done in Germany and Italy. Some of the more modern followers of Mosley have attempted to present Jenks as the first Green, and […]

Back to the future (again)

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[PDF file]: […] a photographer noted for his contributions to The Sunday Times David Bowie stated on 26 April 1976, ’I believe Britain could benefit from a dictator’ and ‘ Hitler was the first rock star’. See or . Eric Clapton’s utterances, about Enoch Powell and immigration, were made at a gig in Birmingham on 5 August […]

David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS, by Gavin Mortimer

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[PDF file]: […] Stirling.’ (p. 330) 6 5 an aura. One wondered how many throats he had slit.”’ (p. 331) To be fair, Aspinall was also an admirer of Adolf Hitler! And as for Stirling, when he was not gambling and drinking, he was ‘an old shooting buddy of the royal family’.7 Stirling was involved in various […]

The Plots Against the President, by Sally Denton

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[PDF file]: […] and was widely admired across the world as a reforming moderniser. This is something today’s readers would do well to remember. When Zangara shot at Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler had only been Chancellor of Germany for a fortnight, and fascism was not yet seen as a toxic ideology. A large exodus of anti-fascist Italians had […]

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] USA’s) national ‘culture’ of ‘intellectual honesty’, which is something else for us to congratulate ourselves upon. It also helped that Churchill and Roosevelt were more openminded than Hitler and Stalin. Reinforcing this trope were the exploits of the brave ‘few’ in the Battle of Britain – ‘few’ against the Nazi ‘hordes’ – and the […]

The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] section that had been used as the Azov Battalion’s headquarters. She writes: As from the material which was left behind, you could clearly see the Nazi ideology, Hitler paintings, SS stickers, books and booklets with swastikas and brochures and manuals from NATO, filled with instructions—along with the business cards of the NATO advisers and […]

Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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A  review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.

[PDF file]: […] difference. While other publications might try to kid you that the Windsors are a race of superintelligent space lizards (if only they were that interesting), or that Hitler ended up running ice-cream parlours in Buenos Aires, the Lobster credo is facts, figures and verification. Every unpalatable truth featured in the mag is backed up […]

The British Right – scratching the surface

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[PDF file]: […] emerge on all these groups, we will find that a substantial proportion of their leading members were anti-semites, as well as being pro-Franco, pro-Mussolini and, finally, pro- Hitler. Gisela Lebzelter noted that the leading members of the Britons Publishing Company (publishers of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion) “were also affiliated with other […]

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