Siege is a book collecting the articles of American neo-Nazi James Mason

James Mason (National Socialist)

James N. Mason is an American National Socialist.- American National Socialist :When he was 14 years old he began communicating with George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party and became a youth member until his 18th birthday when he was sworn into the renamed National Socialist White People's...

, former leader of the National Socialist Liberation Front and Universal Order. It collects the text of Mason's SIEGE newsletter (1980-1986) and other propaganda

Propaganda

Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position so as to benefit oneself or one's group....

, arranging it according to topic. It places an emphasis on gaining power through armed struggle rather than political means.

It was first published by Storm Books in 1992, edited and introduced by Michael Moynihan

Michael Moynihan (journalist)

Michael Moynihan is an American journalist, publisher and musician. He is best known for co-writing the book Lords of Chaos, about black metal....

. It was republished, with a new preface by Mason and an introduction by Ryan Schuster, in 2003 (Black Sun Publications, ISBN 0-9724408-0-1).

Response

The book has been praised and promoted by Tom Metzger

Tom Metzger

Thomas Metzger is an American white nationalist who founded White Aryan Resistance . His far-right activist groups, including WAR, have been monitored by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an American organization that tracks hate groups...

 (http://www.resist.com/Articles/literature/PolandAssociateInterviewsTM.htm, http://www.diaboli.com/bloodaxis/Interviews/RavensChats.htm).

Varg Vikernes

Varg Vikernes

Varg Vikernes is a Norwegian black metal musician, writer, philosopher, religious and political activist, arsonist and convicted murderer.Vikernes was born near Bergen, Norway. In 1991, he founded the one-man music project Burzum, which quickly became popular within the early Norwegian black metal...

 had a copy in his cell. http://www.burzum.com/burzum/library/interviews/kadmon.html

Opening epigraph

Epigraph (literature)

In literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component. The epigraph may serve as a preface, as a summary, as a counter-example, or to link the work to a wider literary canon, either to invite comparison or to enlist a conventional...

"I am the first born of the universal order,

Earlier than the gods, in the navel of immortality!"

- Taittaríya Upanishad

Contents

• Introduction

1. The NSLF and the Move Toward Armed Struggle
2. National Socialism
3. Conservatism and the Lost Movement
4. The System
5. Lone Wolves and Live Wires
6. Strength and Spirit
7. Leaders
8. Universal Order
   • General Appendix
   • Appendix I:NSLF
   • Appendix II:National Socialism
   • Appendix III:Leaders
   • Appendix IV:Universal Order

External links

• Complete text of Siege at Solar General
• Chapters of Siege read as an audiobook
• Siege Mentality, a review of Siege by Dominic Hampshire in The Scorpion — issue 18.
• How Black is Black Metal? (first appearing in the magazine HITLIST) by Kevin Coogan
  Kevin Coogan
  Kevin Coogan is an American investigative journalist. He is the author of the biography Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International....
  
   — February/March 1999
• Counter-Culture Fascism, Dave Emory's For The Record
  For the Record
  For the Record is a two-disc, 44-track greatest hits package released by the American country music band Alabama.The album chronicles the biggest hits from Alabama released between 1980 and 1998. The lineup includes all 33 of their Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles & Tracks No...
  
  broadcast #437 — recorded on 12/8/2003.
• An Interview with James Mason, discussing Siege, by AAC — 2003.