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The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s

Jason Burke

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#2605 of 3,809 books · #861 in History

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2025).

The Revolutionists was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2025 and was a book of the year in the Times, Guardian, Financial Times, Economist, Prospect, and BBC History. In the 1970s, a network of extremists terrorised the West with intricately planned plane hijackings and hostage-takings. Among them were the glamorous Leila Khaled, hard-drinking Carlos the Jackal, and radical leftists of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, all united by their hatred of Israel, capitalism and 'Western imperialism'. Their audacious attacks brought governments to their knees and glued nations to their TV screens. Drawing on decades of research, declassified and secret documents, and first-hand interviews with hijackers, spies, witnesses and victims, Jason Burke takes us inside these often-deadly operations. In this underground realm of loyalty, betrayal and commitment to radical change at any cost, he reveals the dark origins of our fractured world today.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9781529926736
Genre
History
Topics
Terrorism1970s political extremismHijackings and hostage-taking

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