Secret History: Conspiracies from Ancient Aliens to the New World Order (The Real Unexplained! Collection) Paperback – May 12, 2015

Insightful and thought provoking enjoyed it.

Redfern publishes about one book each week it seems. Some are of no interest to me but many are. This book is an excellent all around resource for the topic of conspiracies and the paranormal (esoteric topics); Nick is absolutely always worth checking up on to see if he has published something new that covers an area of the esoteric that one might find interesting because when he hits on a topic of interest he's at the top of the heap for this type of work. He's an intelligent, rational man who is exceedingly well educated on these issues; his writing style is clear, concise and not prone to hyperbole or exaggeration which is a blessing for the topics he writes about - and is rare in this genre. I always check to see what he has published recently because as I said if the topic is of interest then he will do a great job writing about it. Of course any chance you get to listen to an interview with him you should absolutely take it; He is an authority on these topics and as I mentioned he is not an absolute wide-eyed believer. Rather he is rational, yet obviously open minded. Skeptical enough not to make foolish statements and always is well-researched. As these qualities are exceedingly rare in the world of the paranormal/esoteric, this makes Nick Redfern something of a treasure for those of us who are fascinated by these issues and ideas.

Nick Redfern combines humor with serious topics very well. Nick if you ever write a history book I will read it.

i really enjoyed this and it had a lot of fun facts

This book was downright fun to read. Lots of articles, everything you can think of covered, from Black Helicopters to Assassinations. Redfern gives you the basics of each conspiracy but doesn't tell you more than you want to know. Most of the articles are 4-5 pages and some a little longer, all interesting. Except the article on Crop Circles which was just lame. Redfern so needs to look into that.

Well written, and handled in an intelligent way. This new book by Nick Redfern is like an encyclopedia of conspiracies. He presents the facts and lets the reader judge for themselves. This book is all encompassing. It starts with the ancient alien theories of human development, and ends with the crash of MH 370. The reader is left to judge for themselves, but I don't believe Goliath was an alien. He was just a big mean mother. Hasn't the author ever watched the WWE? But seriously, this is a good introduction to conspiracy theories for the average reader.

Secret History by Nick Redfern is a very interesting book. If you are in the least bit interested in Conspiracy Theories. Redfern starts with visits from Ancient Aliens and the possible impact on civilization and proceeds through history covering such things as the assassinations of American Presidents and ending with the missing Flight MH370. I found the section on conspiracies about the New World Order especially interesting. This book held my interest and kept me going back to it. I recommend Secret History: Conspiracies from Ancient Aliens to the New World Order.

Informative, very interesting reading. We have not been able to trust the government to keep us informed on these topics or the "rulers". Not much to be done on some of the issues that the book brings to light but it is nice to be informed. Trust not the government and keep an eye on the sky.....

This book has it all.......if you have been exploring and investigating nearly everything. It would be a good book for those that would like to see beyond the curtain and do it in stages, so to speak.

Not as good as other similar books. It is just a compilation of materials which can be obtained on the internet.

Great read; brings up some very interesting investigation.

I thought i could learn something- there's lots of interesting subjects, many of them that i haven't really dived into deeply...-But: I started with the chapter on 9/11--- I wanna concentrate here on that chapter to make my clear point on that book:"What's your take on September 11th ?" for me has become the crucial question when going through what a "researcher/ truther/ dot-connector", under which ever name they go, is publishing in written form or in interviews.And to say that Nick Redfern, in this book, has done a very, VERY poor job painting a picture about that unforgettable day, is a big understatement, and maybe even missing the point completely-It is that very subject -in my opinion- that, in our time, shows how genuine, how "truth-loving" and therefore brave a researcher really is- and quite a lot have stumbled by telling you this and that, quoting reporters, politicians, exhausted firefighters... without anything that comes even close to deserving the term "OBJECTIVE evidence" in regard to "what happened?". And that's just a classical way of dis-informing people- by fondling their focus and perception with a lot of puzzle pieces that don't really provide a clear picture.In the case of 9/11 there's only ONE author that has done a professional, meticulously forensic research on "what has happened"... and providing evidence that could stand in court... That's Dr. Judy Wood, PhD. (in her book "Where did the towers go?"). Andrew Johnson, building on that, told the very revealing story of the history of Woods book ("9/11 Finding the truth")"Where did the towers go?" tells it all, and it does so with proven facts, "evidence", NOT with theory, not with speculation, not with any guessing, claiming, assuming. That material has been out for more than 5 years now.Any researcher who claims to have researched 9/11 and publishes a book about it today, providing lots of sources and a bibliography with hundreds of books, and NOT even mentioning the outstanding work that Wood has done, is a disinformant. Consciously or unconsciously- Read Woods book and you will understand why...It's not only the puzzle pieces you provide, but the pieces you refuse to give people that define if you're genuine and honest.And there have been quite a number of brave researchers -so we thought- who choose, despite having read Woods material- to completely avoid mentioning her name or even some of the crucial evidence she brought to light- or shyed way from questioning her face to face: Jim Fetzer, Rick Dolan, Alfred Webbre... and Nick Redfern now joined that list.But back to this book:Just putting together well known media statements, some contradictions, mixing it with strange "coincidences", quoting other "conspiracy theorists" and rounding it up with guessing, is NOT "shining a light" on ANYthing at all, as promised on the books back cover.It's a form of deception by dissipating the puzzle pieces, stiring them like an unidentifiable soup, and (by intent) leaving some pieces out, which for most people will go unrecognized. And this is where the Perception Deception lies. Getting people excited with a venturous and kind of thrilling walk in the mists, instead of shining a light.And in between you find horribly vague statements that just don't say anything:"Many people claimed that the ways in which the South and North towers collapsed were far less consistent with what one could expect from air craft collisions." Oh really...? And he goes on saying "And those people were not all conspiracy theorists." Are you kidding, Nick?My good old aunty made brighter statements. And took footbaths deeper than that. And the only "books" she read where the tabloids-Redfern regrettably plays most of the 9/11-comission screenplay (wrong dead-end theories inclusive), taking it for example as fact, that there have been hijackers, commercial aircraft flying into the towers, dramatic telephone calls in the clouds (impossible- read ex-flight-attendant Rebekah Roths' material "Methodical Illusion" and "Methodical Deception", also not mentioned by Redfern), and planes crashing in the Pentagon and in Somerset County (no evidence found in either places, sorry Nicky). What the heck is that author talking about?And then, another crucial point: the so-called "experts" that a researcher chooses to quote and rely upon.I thought, someone's having a laugh when i read that Redfern choosed Steven Jones as "One person who carefully studied the data...".Yes, the same Los Alamos-Steven Jones, who proved to be a reliable and loyal asset for the powers that be, when in 1989 he unprofessionally and infamously smeared Fleischman and Pons, that had just brought "cold fusion" to life, thereby destroying their careers, and putting a seal on "free energy" as something to be ridiculed and no longer spoken about-Yes, the same "free energy" that -in clear daylight- showed it's power, in weaponized form, on 9/11, when it bursted ALL kinds of material (exept paper) to the core of its molecular structure, leaving only momogenious, very fine dust, and therefore caused NO SEISMIC EVENT,as scientifically proven-... (Any striking coincidence in Jones' role as "expert" here?)"Nano-thermite"...? Please! Stop foolishing people with such lousy, disproved DISinformation-Come up with evidence, or leave the puzzle pieces where they are...Redfern closes the chapter with a Michael Lerner quote, saying, that he "would not be surprised" to learn that "some branch of our government" ... "passivly or actively participarted" in the plot of 9/11.Oh, gimme a break... as if there would be anyone else who had the means, the ressources, the sophistication...-and the benefit.This books seems to be written for people who like to be entertained and PLAY with conspiracy theories, like others play ball(s).I would definitively NOT recommend it to anyone who is in serious dot-connecting and "bigger pictures".I give it the second star only, because i haven't read the whole book yet.Don't play arround with theories, people, we don't have the time for it.Wake up.

A reasonable book for a new starter on these topics but doesn't add much if you've already read up on them & researched extensively.There are key omissions on some of the questions about the topics themselves and also whole things omitted like the Bilderberg group & The Illuminati, the masons also get very little mention. It seems mainly focused on Aliens to me.The whole New World Order topic, he breaks it down into chapters but somehow never connects all the dots. In fact that is the problem with the book, it often feels disjointed and there' s no sense of building to a conclusion.It isn't a terrible book by any means and the uninitiated will find much of interest (and alarm!!) in there but it left me slightly disappointed.Is any of it true, who knows?? But if only 25% of it had substance, it would shatter the established paradigms. Personally, Im very down with the Ancient Aliens/Annunaki angle.