"The Turner Diaries" - читать интересную книгу автора (MacDonald Andrew)

Foreword



There exists such an extensive body of literature on the Great
Revolution, including the memoirs of virtually every one of its
leading figures who survived into the New Era, that yet another
book dealing with the events and circumstances of that time of
cataclysmic upheaval and rebirth may seem superfluous. The
Turner Diaries, however, provides an insight into the background
of the Great Revolution which is uniquely valuable for two
reasons:

1) It is a fairly detailed and continuous record of a portion of the
struggle during the years immediately before the culmination of
the Revolution, written as it happened, on a day-to-day basis. Thus,
it is free of the distortion which often afflicts hindsight. Although
the diaries of other participants in that mighty conflict are extant,
none which has yet been published provides as complete and
detailed a record.

2) It is written from the viewpoint of a rank-and-file member of
the Organization, and, although it consequently suffers from
myopia occasionally, it is a totally frank document. Unlike the
accounts recorded by some of the leaders of the Revolution, its
author did not have one eye on his place in history as he wrote. As
we read the pages which follow, we get a better understanding than
from any other source, probably, of the true thoughts and feelings
of the men and women whose struggle and sacrifice saved our race
in its time of greatest peril and brought about the New Era.

Earl Turner, who wrote these diaries, was born in 43 BNE in Los
Angeles, which was the name of a vast metropolitan area on the
west coast of the North American continent in the Old Era,
encompassing the present communities of Eckartsville and
Wesselton as well as a great deal of the surrounding countryside.

He grew up in the Los Angeles area and was trained as an
electrical engineer.
After his education he settled near the city of Washington, which
was then the capital of the United States. He was employed there
by an electronics research firm.
He first became active in the Organization in 12 BNE. When this
record begins, in 8 BNE (1991 according to the old chronology),
Turner was 35 years old and had no mate.
These diaries span barely two years in Earl Turner's life, yet they
give us an intimate acquaintance with one of those whose name is
inscribed in the Record of Martyrs. For that reason alone his words
should have a special significance for all of us, who in our school
days were given the task of memorizing the names of all the