SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2025 A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, PROSPECT AND BBC HISTORYA thrilling and unprecedented account of the radicalism and political extremism that gripped the 1970s a seismic decade that transformed the modern world.A fabulously gripping read DOMINIC SANDBROOK, The Times Books of the YearBrilliant ... An astonishing window not just into the origins of modern terrorism but also into our own age RORY STEWARTExtraordinary ... told with cool authority and a novelists eye for detail RORY CARROLL, author of Killing ThatcherIn the 1970s, a network of extremists terrorised the West with intricately planned plane hijackings and hostagetakings. Among them were the glamorous Leila Khaled, harddrinking Carlos the Jackal, and radical leftists of the BaaderMeinhof Gang. United by their hatred of Israel, capitalism and Western imperialism, they unleashed a series of audacious attacks that brought governments to their knees and glued the world to their tv screens.Drawing on decades of research, recently declassified government files, secret documents, and firsthand interviews with hijackers, spies, witnesses and victims, Jason Burke takes us inside these oftendeadly operations. Through the perpetrators eyes and of the unrelenting agents who hunted them down he uncovers a dark, complex world of loyalty, betrayal and commitment to change at any cost.Pitching us into these tumultuous times, The...

Binding: Hardback;448 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: HBG; Weight: 1134 g; Dimensions: 165 x 243 x 51

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