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The Camp Of The Saints

Jean Raspail

Translated by

Norman Shapiro

And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his

prison, and will go forth and deceive the nations which are in the four

corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, and will gather them together for the

battle; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up

over the breadth of the earth and encompassed the camp of the saints, and

the beloved city.

—APOCALYPSE 20

My spirit turns more and more toward the West, toward the old heritage.

There are, perhaps, some treasures to retrieve among its ruins … I don’t

know.

—LAWRENCE DURRELL

As seen from the outside, the massive upheaval in Western society is

approaching the limit beyond which it will become “meta-stable” and must

collapse.

—SOLZHENITSYN

I HAD WANTED TO WRITE a lengthy preface to explain my position and

show that this is no wild-eyed dream; that even if the specific action,

symbolic as it is, may seem farfetched, the fact remains that we are

inevitably heading for something of the sort. We need only glance at the

awesome population figures predicted for the year 2000, i.e., twenty-eight

years from now: seven billion people, only nine hundred million of whom

will be white.

But what good would it do?

I should at least point out, though, that many of the texts I have put into

my characters’ mouths or pens—editorials, speeches, pastoral letters, laws,

news stories, statements of every description—are, in fact, authentic.

Perhaps the reader will spot them as they go by. In terms of the fictional

situation I have presented, they become all the more revealing.

—J.R.