.ume 15, Number 3 May / June 1995 1 1 How Mussolini Crushed Murray Rothbard: A Tribute the Mafia Italy, and How in On the Importance of Revisionism the United States Revived It Murray- N. Rothbard James J. Martin Two-Year Prison Sentence for America's Changing View 'Holocaust Denial' ' !'fl of Mussolini and Fascism I Jews as World War II I I Bergen-Belsen Camp: Underground Fighters The Suppressed Story William B. Ziff Mark Weber - And M~re- The War that Never Ends early fifty years ago, the bombing and the shooting World War. You'll find yourself reading, and re-reading, ended in the most total military victories, and the concise, judicious and thorough studies by the leading N most annihilating defeats, of the modern age. Yet the names in American Revisionist scholarship. war lives on, in the words-and the deeds-of the politi- cians, in the purposeful distortions of the professors, in the Classic... and Burningly Controversial blaring propaganda of the media. The Establishment Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, first published which rules ordinary Americans needs to keep World War in 1953,represents Revisionist academic scholarship at its I1 alive-in a version which fractures the facts and full and (to date) tragically final flowering in America's sustains old lies to manufacture phony justifications for greatest universities-just before America's international- sending America's armed forces abroad in one senseless, ist Establishment imposed a bigoted and chillingly effec- wasteful, and dangerous military adventure after another. tive blackout on Revisionism in academia. Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace is the most Its republication by the Institute in 1983 was an event, authoritative, and the most comprehensive, one-volume and not merely because IHR's version included Harry history of America's real road into World War 11. The work Elmer Barnes' uncannily prophetic essay on "1984" trends of eight outstanding American historians and researchers, in American policy and public life (considered too contro- under the editorial leadership of the brilliant Revisionist versial for conservatives and anti-Communistsin the early historian Harry Elmer Barnes, this timeless classic 50's). It was hailed by the international Revisionist demonstrates why World War I1 wasn't America's war, community, led by Dr. James J. Martin, the Dean of living and how our leaders, from President Franklin Delano Historical Revisionists, who wrote: Roosevelt on down, first lied us into the war, then lied us It is the republication of books such as Perpetual War into a maze of international entanglements that have for Perpetual Peace which does so much to discommode brought America Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace. and annoy the beneficiaries of the New World Order. More Than Just a History Discommode and annoy the enemies of historical truth But Perpetual Warfor Perpetual Peace is more than and freedom of research it did-virtually the entire stock just a history: it's a case history of how politicians like FDR of Perpetual War was destroyed in the terrorist arson use propaganda, outright lies, and suppression of the truth attack on the Institute's offices and warehouse on the to scapegoat patriotic opposition to war, to incite hatred of Orwellian date of July 4, 1984. the enemy (before they're the enemy!), and to lure foreign Today, the Institute for nations into diplomatic traps-all to serve, not America's Historical Review is proud national interest, but international interests. to be able once more to Perpetual Warfor Perpetual Peace gives you: make this enduring, phoe- nix-like classic available Matchless, careful debunking of all the arguments that led us to you, and to our fellow into World War 11; Americans. It can silence the lies about World War Detailed, definitive historical sleuthwork exposing FDR's hidden treachery in preparing for war on behalf of Stalin's 11, and thus the bombs USSR and the British Empire-while falsely representing and bullets our interven- Germany and Japan as "aggressors" against America; tionist rulers plan-for our own American troops Incisive, unmistakably American perspectives on how the U.S. no less than the ene- made a mockery of its own professed ideals during the mis- my-in the Middle East, named "Good War," by allying with imperialists and despots to A CRITICAL E%AMINCIIONOWWR WORSfON PdUCt Europe, Africa, Asia, or wage a brutal, pointless war culminating in the massacres of OP *l*li*LlN OlLINO ROOIWILT ILII) 8's ARUllM.rn wherever else the inter- Dresden and Hiroshima and the Yalta and Potsdam betrayals; OW Edited Harry Elmer Barnes ventionist imperative "Ill am.. .- I.(U.. I-. C Inspired insight into how future wars have sprung and will cruu~lir-my m M-lrrerrur- lrnL or...- .r h"CLUUrn imposed by World War I1 continue to spring from the internationalist impetus that led us *war - G.w.. - may lead us. from World War 11, through the "Cold War" (and the hot wars we fought in Korea and Vietnam against our WWII Communist "allies") to the "New World Ordern-until Americans, armed with the truth, force their leaders to return to our traditional non-interventionist foreign policy. PERPETUAL WAR FOR PERPETUAL PEACE A Critical Examination of the Foretgn Policy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Eleven Books in One! and Its Aftermath I Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace is much, much Edited by Harry Elmer Barnes more than a standard history book. Its eleven separate Quality Softcover 740 pages Qt8 + $3 shipping essays by eight different authors (average length 65 pages) ISBN 0-939484-01 -3 make it a virtual encyclopedia on the real causes and the INSTITUTE FOR HlSTORICAL REVIEW actual results of American participation in the Second P.O. Box 2739 . Newport Beach. DA 92659 Editor: Mark Weber The Journal of Associate Editor: Greg Raven Historical Review EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMIlTEE Advisors are not spokespersons of the educational institutions identified. Volume 15, Number 3 May / June 1995 GEORGE ASHLEY. Ph.D Los Angeles Unified School District (Ret.) ENRIQUE AYNAT, L.L.B. Torreblanca, Spain IN THIS ISSUE PHILIP BARKER, Ph.D Minneapolis, Minnesota The Death and Life of the Mafia in Italy: 2 JOHN BENNETT. L.L.B. From Suppression by Mussolini to Revival by 'Liberation' Australian Civil Liberties Union James J. Martin Melbourne, Australia America's Changing View of Mussolini and Italian Fascism 6 FRIEDRICH P. BERG, B.Sc. Ft. 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