Written with the cooperation of leaders of groups like the Aryan Brotherhood and the Ku Klux Klan, “Soldiers of God” allows white supremacists to speak their minds. Through exclusive interviews and documents, the authors skillfully place the views of this expanding underground movement into the context of modern America…. More >>
Soldiers Of God: White Supremacists and Their Holy War for America
This book is fatally flawed by its defective scholarship. The authors briefly refer to “The International Jew – The World’s Foremost Problem” as being authored by Henry Ford in 1948. This book was actually a compilation of articles published in the periodical “The Dearborn Independent” in the 1920s and was available in book form in the 1920s. It, along with the “Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion”, is one of the most significant anti-semetic publications ever written and has had a profound influence in America and abroad. Adolf Hitler kept a picture of Henry Ford in his office for many years. Ford is alledged to have been a significant financial contributor to the early Nazi party.
Unfortunately, this error, as well as other errors in the text, force me to dismiss this book as simply another attempt to cash in on the militia hype of the 1990s.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book has good pictures that tell a good story, it made me feel real good to read this, to see that some people cares about god, and is willing to do his workings, we needs to keep these minorties from taking whats ours;
Rating: 5 / 5
The authors are to be commended for letting their subjects speak for themselves, rather than presenting the reader with an editorial on the evils of white supremacist movements and using selected quotations to back it up. That said, I find the book incredibly frightening: the members of the groups profiled have made the common mistake of confusing “We’re sincere” and “We can find Biblical support for our beliefs” with “We’re RIGHT.” (In fact you can find Biblical justification for just about anything, but that’s never stopped anyone.) They resent being lumped together with “racist groups” by the FBI et al., but they themselves lump all sorts of unrelated phenomena together and call it the Satanic plot to take over the world.
These groups may contend that they’re not “racist,” but according to the maxim attributed to the late Cardinal Cushing: if it walks like a duck, and swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I say it’s a duck.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a remarkable book.
The greatest error one can make is to demonize without thinking, without questioning, without talking.
The authors of this book provoke the reader to delve past the superficial, the sensational, the simplistic and see / hear what comes from the hearts and minds of a segment of our society which has chosen a path quite different than most.
Soldiers of God seeks to educate the reader and reveals what motivates the most radical, hyper violent factions of a movement so at war with itself that it’s hard to tell the players apart unless you have a book like S.O.G. at hand to sift through the cults, clubs, churches, militias, cells, teams and secret armies.
Congratulations to those who went to the belly of the beast. In the end, no matter how human a face one can put on a “soldier of god”, his or her beliefs, actions, and objectives are simply repugnant, at the very least.
In post Y2K such groups and philosophies are only becoming more sophisticated, appealing, motivated, and hardened. S.O.G. is a bedrock accomplishment for the student of this unfortunate reality in our and international society.
A “must read” and “outta have” in one’s personal library.
Rating: 4 / 5
This is a frightening account of continued racism in America. The scariest part is that the real culprits look just like you and me. An excellent book about just how little things have changed since the Civil War. Frightening most of all because it is Texas, just north of Houston, 1998.
Rating: 4 / 5