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Author: Nick
Redfern
Publisher: New Page Books
ISBN: 978-1-60163-206-7
The U.S. Government wants to know about
everyone and everything, sometimes even keeping their information to
themselves. In The Pyramids and the Pentagon: The Government's Top
Secret Pursuit of Mystical Relics, Ancient Astronauts, and Lost
Civilizations, renowned author Nick Redfern tries to link the
government's interest and knowledge in the topic of past history,
relics, aliens and artifacts.
This two hundred and eight-four
page soft cover book has a light brown jacket with three photos
depicting the Pyramids, the Pentagon and the Face of Mars on the
front with one review and a description of the book contents with the
author's small photograph on the back. It is written in casual format
with no noticeable grammatical or typographical errors.
In
addition to a small dedication and acknowledgment page with table of
contents, there is a short introduction at the beginning of the book.
About a dozen black and white (some grainy) photographs are included
inside. A short conclusion is followed by nineteen pages of
bibliography, five pages of index and a one page about the author
with other written works mentioned.
This quick read is a
documentary of how governments (especially the United States and
England) want to learn, change, or use for their advantage
information about past historical relics, religious artifacts and
mystical or lost civilizations. Redfern discusses the government's
interest in topics ranging from the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls, Noah's
Ark, the Ark of the Covenant or the Holy Grail to the Egyptian
Pyramids, the Dancing Stones, Stonehenge, and the Face of Mars. Each
topic tries to correlate the government's interest (secretive or
not), cover-up and tracking of either the people involved or the
object itself.
Redfern does his homework in mentioning names
of individuals or groups involved both from the public and
governmental viewpoint. Although most of the governmental
documentation is hearsay or considered "top-secret,"
(several times it is only a relative's viewpoint of what someone
stated previously), he tries to connect the dots on its involvement.
He concludes the government perhaps seeks out strange happenings or
artifacts to learn their mysteries and duplicate them for their own
gain. Be it for religious, occult or even alien backing, world
governments do not know enough about such topics and could be and are
still playing the "one-upmanship" game for world domination
and control.
This reader found the book's reference to the
1940s and 1950s interesting as most of the U.S. government's
participation and research started at this pivotal time period. It is
ironic how much of Redfern's findings were related to the Bible and
its lengthy history. Too often governmental reports had weak
witnesses or undocumented proof so more photographs, especially of
any U.S. declassified documents, would have been helpful.