Homeland: Into a World of Hate is not a new book. I've owned a copy since 2005, two years after it's publish. I began reading it in my first summer holiday during my time at University but only got half way through it. The recent 'outing' of BNP members from the leaked list reminded me of the book and I have since re-read and finished it.

During this fantastically detailed book, the author (Nick Ryan) takes the reader on a journey through the world wide networks of the extreme right. Starting with the British based football firms and the hooliganism associated with it, the book then meanders through to the rest of Europe and onto the US before ending in the nation that spawned the second world war.

Ryan immerses himself at the core of fascism in modern culture often putting himself at great risk to bring the truth about the far-right to the forefront. Detailed interviews with 'political' heads, neo-nazis, holocaust deniers, Klansmen and Christian fundamentalists convey the twisted ethics and distorted history that these organisations wreak upon the world of today.

In this courageous story, it is possible to view these people for what they truly are. Many of the individuals from the right interviewed in this tale fit a typical profile of a hater. Reading the book you will observe how they often appear as self-contained, underachieving, and poorly educated 'weirdos' living inside themselves and their often small sects. However it demonstrates the power and distortion that hate can emanate into the depths of human empathy.

Whether you're a red or blue you should read this book, if only to appreciate the extremes that the author has endured in order to write it.

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