I read 'The Camp of the Saints.' Here's why it's relevant

National Post ^ | Apr 23, 2026 | Jamie Sarkonak

[MinorityRepublican]

Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints (1973) is easily one of the most suppressed books of the 20th century. That’s because it’s a dystopian novel about mass third-world migration, a topic still considered taboo to many.

While The Handmaid’s Tale and Nineteen Eighty-Four have become regular headliners of “banned book” campaigns and subjects of novel studies in school curriculums, English translations of Raspail’s magnum opus have been so hard to find that used hard copies sold for prices ranging into the hundreds. Until just last year, that is.

In 2025, the indie heterodox translator-publisher Vauban Books came out with a new, better translation of The Camp of the Saints . Paperbacks were priced at roughly US$25, hardcovers US$40, and, miraculously, they were available on Amazon.

All was going well until April 20, when the retailer mysteriously removed physical copies of the book from its American and Canadian storefronts for allegedly violating the company’s “offensive content” policy (though the audiobook remained buyable). Vauban Books raised hell, and a day later, the ability to buy print copies was restored. Amazon attributed the removal to an error.

The controversy has had the opposite effect of whatever the censorious Amazon employee intended: since the controversy, Vauban’s edition of The Camp of the Saints has skyrocketed up Amazon’s bestseller list: by lunchtime Wednesday, it was already no. 10 in Canada. Copies have since sold out, and the publisher is printing more .

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Conspiracy; Society
KEYWORDS: amazon; amazonsucks; campofthesaints; jeanraspail; thecampofthesaints; vaubanbooks

[Zathras]

This is kind of fake news.
I ordered a copy from Amazon last week as I was unaware of the book and its story.

[aquila48]

One of the most prophetic book you’ll ever read!

[Jan_Sobieski]

Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints (1973) Is a prescient novel. Like the book of Joel in the Bible which likens the Babylonian Invasion of Judah to a locust invasion. The Babylonians invaded Judah 4 times. By the 4th time they had taken EVERYTHING.

Joel 1: 1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. 2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? 3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. 4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten. 5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. 6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

The Islamic invasion of Europe is progressing in waves like Camp of the saints.

[Dalberg-Acton]

The Camp Of The Saints on archive.org

Free download.

[House Atreides]

Supposedly the Vauban Books version features a better translation… according to the linked article.

[StAnDeliver]

"Supposedly the Vauban Books version features a better translation… according to the linked article."

Shapiro's translation is fine, and free is about where the value lies. I read Shapiro's translation first, then Raspail's original en français, and Shapiro's translation doesn't miss. Raspail was not Sartre -- travelogues and transgressions don't require much beyond base descriptive language.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

https://dn710103.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-camp-of-the-saints-jean-raspail_202412/The%20Camp%20Of%20The%20Saints%20-%20Jean%20Raspail.pdf

[Theophilus]

Thanks! Taboo tastes good!

[Ge0ffrey]

It wasn’t banned by Amazon. Way to gin up sales.

[Paladin2]

Great Post!

[bennowens]

I found a copy several years ago from the inter library exchange program. Definitely a must read for today’s widespread Muslim immigration.