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Product Details

  • Paperback: 350 pages
  • Publisher: AuthorHouse (October 19, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1477273948
  • ISBN-13: 978-1477273944
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,017,596 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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About the Author

Jillian Becker writes both fiction and non-fiction. Her first novel, The Keep, is now a Penguin Modern Classic, and one of her stories, The Stench, is a Pushcart Prize winner. Her best known work of non-fiction is Hitler's Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang, an international best-seller. She was Director of the London-based Institute for the Study of Terrorism 1985-1990, and on the subject of terrorism contributed to TV and radio current affairs programs in Britain, the US, Canada, and Germany. Her articles have been published in newspapers and periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic, among them Commentary, The New Criterion, The Wall Street Journal (Europe), The Times (UK), and The Telegraph Magazine. She was born in South Africa but made her home in London. All her early books were banned or embargoed in the land of her birth while it was under an all-white government. In 2007 she moved to California where she launched an online magazine, The Atheist Conservative.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful By John L Murphy TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on August 10, 2012
Format: Hardcover
What if a purportedly progressive, charismatic leader, enamored with self-sacrifice in the manner inspired by Foucault, Bataille, Sartre, and Georg Lúkas, rose to replace Maggie Thatcher in 80s England? Labour, weakened by Tory rule, cannot resist a violent Left which takes its cue from intellectuals and provocateurs advocating a liberating reign by "action art" and extremism in the name of ecstatic cruelty? A celebrity avant-garde writer from a wealthy family establishes the Red Republic of Britain in the late 80s.

While the introduction gives away the fact that only five seasons and two years span the reign of Louis Zander, the range of opinions and witnesses enriches the situation evoked. This recalls for me the multiple sources used by Jack London in "The Iron Heel" with its 1908 extrapolation of epic dystopia, and its pairing of a future scholar's edition of a contemporary's account. Less directly, see Thomas Flanagan in his historical novels about Ireland, and lately, Joseph O'Connor's Irish-American narratives "Star of the Sea" and "Redemption Falls" (I reviewed the latter in 1/08.) I nod to Gyorgy Kepes' "1985" and Anthony Burgess' "1985"--clever follow-ups to Orwell. Becker via Gill's fragmentation of opinions and the attempt of a later scholar to make sense out of varying testimonies engrosses me, and should thoughtful readers.

It favors a calm, steady, academic tone to filter the dramatic events. It does get more brutal, as such novels tend to, once characters revolt against tyranny.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful By Melinda on September 2, 2012
Format: Hardcover
This book is historical fiction dressed up as a real history. It is about a person known as simply L. His real name is Louis Zander. He was born in South Africa - of Jewish heritage. A fact he kept hidden as his plans unfolded throughout his history in England where he spent most of his time. He was the son of rich parents who looked after this sensitive and brilliant child who later turned into a monster. This is the most absolutely frightening book I've ever read, even though it is written as a history of a political figure. The power that he had and the ways he abused that power effected an entire country so much so it turned England on it's head to become a Dictatorship. That one man could do that in such a short span of time is not only a cautionary tale, it is a horror story that should be taught to our children along with Grimm's fairy tales which teach them lessons about talking to strangers and being nice to people in situations which warrant it, because you never know what will happen in the future. This book was written from the perspective of an author quoting from a history that was written in the year 2023, looking back on the destruction caused by L and his cohorts, but really by L himself. With the socialist tendencies of Obama, this is a lesson that we all should learn and learn quickly. It could be part of our future, and that will not end well at all. To quote the marketing text; This "...could be a fictionalization of the Cloward-Piven strategy or Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. [sic] It "...unveils the step-by-step process by which one evil man seduces, perverts and then destroys an entire nation. "L" could be Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, or even the next Prime Minister or President.Read more ›
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Format: Kindle Edition
Book Info: Genre: Alternate History
Reading Level: Adult
Recommended for: I think everyone should read this. While I think those who favor socialism and communism will probably find the blatantly anti-communist overstory to be upsetting, I still think they should read it, and try to keep an open mind. There is more to this story that is on the surface.
Trigger Warnings: rape of women and children, violence, attempted murder, murder, torture, cannibalism, looting
Animal Abuse: multiple animals killed in "art" presentations, killing and eating of a small boy's dog

My Thoughts: Wow, this has to be one of the strangest things I've ever read. It's fiction, written like a history book, purportedly written in 2023 about events that took place from the 1960s into the early 1990s about a man who thirsted for power and destruction. If read with only a surface understanding, it appears to be vehemently anti-socialist and pro-capitalist, but a deeper understanding is needed to really understand that is being explored in this book. It is not about Left vs. Right, but about one man's desire to see the world burn around him, and how he used Leftist ideology and the desire of people to a) do right and b) be taken care of so as to be absolved of responsibilities to twist an entire country into his fist. This quote more-or-less encapsulates the idea behind the story.
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