Well, in my 20s I happened to walk into a used book shop up in Van Eyes, California, where I was living.

That's journalist Anthony Mostram. It might have been the unusual book jacket design,

but it just grabbed my eye. I had no idea what it was. That book. book and it was just strange enough looking that he decided you know what the heck he stuck

it under his arm brought it up to the counter I bought it you know it was a used book for

like five bucks or whatever took it home and you know after that I didn't really think much more about it it was just sort of I put it on in my home library and it was just another one of my

extremist and it was just another one of my extremist books on my shelf, right?

Across the country, right around the same time, a historian named John Jackson was having a similar experience.

I found a copy in the early 90s in a used bookstore and so I went up to the counter and put it down

and the and the book seller kind of looks at the book and kind of looks at me a big bald white man and kind of says something like, oh, that's a controversial book.

And I quit, I'm a historian, this is interested. I'm not a Nazi please don't please don't think that

this book that both John Jackson and Anthony Mostram are describing here. This book they both happened upon and used bookshops.

It's a book called Emperium. And the content of that book is why a bookshop owner might shoot a sideways glance at somebody who was picking it up.

It's very much an anti-Semitic book, it's very much a hate book.

Imperial was published in the late 1940s,

but only barely.

Its initial print run was maybe a couple hundred copies.

And the author of the book,

that was kind of hard to figure out.

The book was published under a pseudonym.

Ullick Varange.

Ullick is a given Irish name and Varange refers to a nomadic tribe of Vikings who some historians say were the first to settle Russia.

Ulic or Ulic Varange was listed as the author,

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