"Peaceful assault on the Western World"
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Chilling, internationally acclaimed novel about the end of the white, Western world. As millions of starving Third World refugees pour in, Europeans -- conditioned by decades of "brotherhood" and "equality" propaganda -- are unable to resist. All Europe, and ultimately the entire white world, is submerged in the human flood. Astonishingly current. Baltimore Sun writer Linell Smith calls it "shocking and controversial ... a macabre thriller ... no reader will remain unaffected by the questions it raises about the future of the world." Dismissed by the New York Times magazine as a "racist diatribe." Praised by American Renaissance editor Samuel Jared Taylor as a "powerful, gripping novel" and a "call to all whites to rekindle their sense of race, love of culture and pride in history."
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A book that cannot be ignored
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During my long-ago youth, I remember people discussing a coming war of the Haves against the Have-nots. Well, what if the Have-nots launched their invasion armed not with pathetically out-of-date weapons, but with empty, out-stretched hands? In this book, author Jean Raspail examines just such an eventuality. When the termination of a Belgian project of adopting babies from Third World nations is announced, a wave of despair sweeps through the poorest of the poor in Calcutta, India. A crazed prophet announces that the West has forfeited its land, and leads a million of these impoverished people on a "last chance armada" towards France. The whole world holds its breath, as millions of others of the world's poor wait to see how the French (and as such the West) will react. But, sapped by a political-correctness that has preached self-hatred and self-sacrifice, can France fight a war against a group of poor, unarmed, emaciated souls, even if the cost is the loss of a thousand years of Western civilization? In a word - No. I first read about this book in the December 1994 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, and was quite glad when a copy recently fell into my hands. This book racks the political Left over the coals, up one side and down the other, while at the same time trampling Christianity and its gospel of self-sacrifice and brotherhood under foot. It is Jean Raspail's belief that the West has lost its will to power, and that with declining birthrates, the West is doomed to extinction; submerged beneath a wave of invaders. "Many a civilization, victim of the selfsame fate, sits tucked in our museums, under glass, nearly labeled." If you are looking for an uplifting book of a hope-filling future, then you will have to look elsewhere. But in this world, where explosive population growth is coupled with drastically unbalanced wealth, this is a book that cannot be ignored. Mass population movement from the Third World to the First is a fact of today, and the West is beginning to realize the significance.
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It Is Later Than We Think
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The Camp of the Saints appears controversial in a culture where discussion of race has become taboo. Readers should note from the outset that Mr Raspail writes about Culture and Civilisation, rather than race. The book foretells through fiction the collapse of Western civilisation - a collapse it brings upon itself through its failure to believe in itself and defened itself. Raspail considers what would happen if all the masses of the Third World would overrun the West in irresistible human waves. A Third World fleet lands in France, where it engulfs French culture then moves across the whole of the West - unchallenged. The multi-cultural, self-defeating liberalism of the liberal press, politicians, educators and churches is recognisable. They have instilled a sense of guilt, with disastrous consequences. The people of the West do not have the will to defend and preserve their culture. Fiction can be more powerful than fact. The prose is potent and Swiftian. The book is highly unsettling but highly relevant and important. Mr Raspail has courageously given us a serious warning we would do well to heed. It is later than we think.
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Impeccable literary quality allied to serious social comment
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I read this book without having seen any of the reviews here on Amazon. As a lover of good literature I have to say that Jean Raspail is a writer whose works I will seek out, as the standard is of the highest. I think this book will become a classic for two reasons. In the first place the writing itself is of exceptional quality. Secondly, one hopes that the warning he gives to European society and culture goes heeded. If so, he will be remembered through history not only for his literary quality, but also for his courage in taking a non-politically correct subject and tastefully dealing with it in such a way that one is left in no doubt as to the seriousness of the situation. As usual the liberal left have demonised Raspail, calling him names and abusing him without giving any answer to the issues he raises. This is because they have no logical argument to put forth. READ THIS BOOK. IT IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS OF OUR TIMES.
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Most Important Literary Work This Century
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In simple prose and shockingly honest frank descriptions of his characters, Jean Raspail travels in the company of writers as great as Dostoyevsky and Chekov concerning a subject matter so sensitive it is forbidden to even discuss in public today. I feel the book makes an eloquent case for a conclusion so obvious that few of us can afford to ignore it like the Emperor's Clothes for much longer : given differentials in birth rates and immigration, the complete elimination of whites as a race is inevitable within a single century from now. Reading the book will make you understand why white people are treated as different by all the other races of the world and why they are considered as too dangerous to be permitted to develop the same racial cohesion and consciousness that is taken for granted by everyone else. Forget about political correctness ... this book will curl your toes inside of the first three chapters with startling insights and you'll recognize a lot of the personalities caricatured in the book in both the mainstream media and in the entertainment industries. At the turn of the century, white people were a mere 22% of the world population. Today, they are 8% and rapidly declining. For those interested in protecting endangered species, look no further than this astonishing literary classic, excellently translated from the original french by Norman Shapiro. If you read one book this year, make it "The Camp of the Saints."
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