A book that examines the contributions of Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh
to the German war effort in the prewar period of the late 1930s was won at
auction by Alicia Brooks of the Picador imprint at St. Martin’s Press.
It is "The Other Axis: Ford, Lindbergh and the Rise of the Reich"
by investigative journalist Max Wallace, which argues that both these iconic
American figures encouraged the growth of Nazism and continued to support it
even after America was involved in WWII. Brooks bought it to an auction from
agent Noah Lukeman at AMG, for world rights, and ReganBooks was the
underbidder.
Wallace is an award-winner researcher for the Shoah project and director of
a center for Holocaust research in Montreal. According to Brooks, he has
documented Jewish lawsuits against Ford for slave labor practices at German
plants, as well as evidence that Henry wrote checks to these plants long after
Pearl Harbor; and that after America First was dissolved, Lindbergh formed a
secret neo-Nazi society.
Brooks plans to publish it as a lead title in May 2003.