Pour rédiger cet ouvrage commencé en 1951, Douglas Reed passa plus de trois ans - pour la plupart loin de sa femme et de ses jeunes enfants - à travailler à la Bibliothèque centrale de New York, ou à taper sur sa machine à écrire dans des logements spartiates à New York ou à Montréal. Avec un zèle de professionnel, le livre fut réécrit et l'épilogue seulement ajouté en 1956. Son but était de relater l'Histoire des deux derniers millénaires et plus encore de rendre intelligible une grande partie de l'Histoire moderne, qui de nos jours reste pour les masses plongée dans les ténèbres et étroitement gardée par la terreur d'un système de censure invisible. L'histoire même du livre - les circonstances inhabituelles dans lesquelles il fut écrit, et comment le manuscrit, après être resté caché pendant plus de 20 ans, est apparu à la lumière et est enfin devenu publiable - fait partie de l'Histoire de notre siècle, jetant la lumière sur un combat dont les foules ne savent rien : celui mené continuellement et avec acharnement sur le champ de bataille de l'esprit humain. En Europe, durant les années qui précédèrent et suivirent immédiatement la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le nom de Douglas Reed était sur toutes les lèvres ; ses livres se vendaient par dizaines de milliers, et il était extrêmement connu au sein du monde anglophone, par une immense foule de lecteurs et d'admirateurs. Ancien correspondant pour le Times de Londres en Europe Centrale, il avait acquis une grande renommée grâce a des livres comme Insanity Fair, Disgrace Abounding, Lest We Regret, Somewhere South of Suez, Far and Wide et plusieurs autres, chacun d'eux élargissant au centuple les possibilités qui lui étaient offertes alors en tant que l'un des principaux correspondants mondiaux a l'etranger. La disparition de Douglas Reed et de toutes ses œuvres dans un oubli presque total fut un retournement que le temps seul n'aurait pu provoquer ; a vrai dire, la justesse de son interprétation du déroulement de l'histoire des époques trouva confirmation dans ce qui lui arriva alors qu'il était au sommet de sa gloire.

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