“Of these injustices, the greatest, because it is the foundation for all the rest, is the imputation of Germany's sole responsibility for [World War 1]. The German people will never endure that imputation; they should never be expected to endure it. Nothing can really be settled until the question of responsibility is openly and candidly re-examined, and an understanding established that is based on facts instead of on official misrepresentation.” From The Myth of a Guilty Nation

Westerners are just now waking up to the extent of the war propaganda that brought about Allied involvement in the world wars. America, herself historically characterized by an ingrained hesitancy toward European involvement, became an engine of war propaganda seeking to veil the war objectives behind narratives of morality and justice. During World War I, Germany was cast as a rogue nation of wicked imperial ambitions, eager to destroy the Anglo-American out of its own unfounded military hubris.

But in this classic work (first published in 1922), the great dissident from American Progressivism, Albert Jay Nock, demonstrates "that the German Government was not solely guilty of bringing on the war." This point is important because "If the German Government may not be assumed to be solely responsible for the war, this treaty [Versailles] is indefensible; for it is constructed wholly upon that assumption."

This new Based Audio Books production is read by Thomas Achord, co-author of the vital work, Who Is My Neighbor: An Anthology in Natural Relations.

Albert Jay Nock (October 13, 1870–August 19, 1945) was an American author, educational theorist, and social critic of the early and middle twentieth century.

NOW AVAILABLE! Heritage America is So Back! Enjoy the Christmas season with this unique audiobook collection of letters, poems, carols, and stories from the people of America through the centuries. Christmas in Heritage America will renew your appreciation for the history and literature of the American nation.

And remember! Christmas does not end on December 25: in the Christian Calendar, that is merely the first day of Twelve. You can listen to Christmas in Heritage America at any time throughout Advent and Christmas.

Christmas in Heritage America Vol. 1

Table of Contents

* From William Bradford’s History Of Plymouth Plantation, 1606-1646

* From Cotton Mather’s “Grace defended. A censure on the ungodliness, by which the glorious grace of God, is too commonly abused. A sermon preached on the twenty fifth day of December, 1712. Containing some seasonable admonitions of piety…”

* From Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1734 and 1739

* “George Washington’s Christmas Poem,” 1743

* From an Account of Christmas Among Various American Christians, by Peter Kalm, 1749

* From an Account of Washington’s Crossing of the Delaware on Christmas Night, 1776, in A History of Trenton, 1679-1929

* William Billings’ “Shiloh (Methinks I See a Heavenly Host),” 1786

* From William Billings’ “An Anthem for Christmas,” 1794

* From Washington Irving’s Knickerbocker’s History of New York, 1809

* Clement Moore’s “A Visit From Saint Nicholas,” 1823

* From the Letters of Robert E. Lee to His Family, 1846-1860

* From Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Bells,” 1850

* John Henry Hopkins’ “We Three Kings of Orient Are,” 1857

* John Henry Hopkins’ “Gather Around the Christmas Tree,” 1863

* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day,” 1863

* Mark Twain’s “A Letter From Santa Claus,” 1875

* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “The Three Kings,” 1878

* John Greenleaf Whittier’s “A Christmas Carmen,” 1888

* John Greenleaf Whittier’s “The Christmas of 1888,” 1888

* O’Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi,” 1905

Used with permission from Antelope Hill (antelopehillpublishing.com/)

Born to a Belgian family in the year 1906, Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle rose to prominence as a newspaper editor and head of the militant monarchist, Catholic, and anticommunist Parti Rexiste.

Following the German occupation of Belgium, Degrelle and his party loyalists enlisted in the Wehrmacht-organized Walloon Legion to aid in the liberation of the peoples of the Soviet Republics. He raised approximately 6,000 volunteers over the course of the war, both for the Wehrmacht and, later, for the Waffen-SS. Barely a third of these volunteers would survive. Degrelle and his men were noted for extreme bravery, brutal ferocity in close quarters fighting, and an indomitable spirit of self-sacrifice, with Degrelle himself earning the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.

After the fall of Berlin, Degrelle made a daring escape from the crumbling Third Reich. He managed to reach Spain, where he was safeguarded by Franco’s government. His native Belgium later sentenced him to death in absentia for collaboration with the Germans.

Degrelle expressed no regrets for joining the war on the side of the Axis Powers, defending both his own actions and those of his superiors and comrades. He lived in Spain until his death of natural causes in 1994, and remained active in anticommunist and pan-European causes despite several attempts at his extradition, kidnapping, or assassination.

The Burning Souls is Degrelle’s reflection on his experiences and on the soul – part poetry, part memoir. In it, he traces his journey, from his idyllic childhood to the frozen steppes of Russia, not just as a physical journey but as a great spiritual trial. He instructs us that to give oneself completely, to be willing to weather all hardships in service of a transcendent ideal, is what is required to overcome the spiritual malaise of our day.