03938cam a2200373 i 4500 2648307707 TxAuBib 20260203120000.0 250418s2026||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780525659433 hardcover 40.00 0525659439 hardcover 40.00 (OCoLC)1515059029 TxAuBib rda Burke, Jason. The revolutionists [BOOK] : the story of the extremists who hijacked the 1970s / Jason Burke. First U.S. hardcover edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2026. xxii, 736 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 608-678) and index. 'Where are we going?' -- Spies across the Jordan -- The Fedayeen -- Revolution airport -- Black September -- The German connection -- Armed struggle is the reality -- Munich -- The Black September Organisation -- The shadow war -- The red prince -- Carlos! -- The revolutionary cells -- Winter in New York, summer in Paris -- Sand, sea and Kalashnikovs -- Christmas in Vienna -- To Entebbe -- Operation Thunderbolt -- An outrage for God -- The jackal at bay -- Offensive 77 -- The last aktion -- Carols Redux -- 'They are all mad' -- The red and the black -- In the name of the oppressed -- 'We are dealing with wild animals' -- Who dares wins -- 'The most beautiful work' -- The black flag -- A new international -- Death on the Nile -- Carols in the East -- Carlos in the West -- Yasser Arafat's last stand -- The bloodies year -- The revolutionists. "An account of the years when a new wave of revolutionaries seized the skies and the streets to hold the world for ransom. In the 1970s, an unprecedented wave of international terrorism broke out around the world. More ambitious, networked and far-reaching than ever before, new armed groups terrorized the West with intricately planned plane hijackings and hostage missions, leaving governments scrambling to cope. Their motives were as diverse as their methods. Some sought to champion Palestinian liberation, others to topple Western imperialism or battle capitalism; a few simply sought adventure or power. Among them were the unflappable young Leila Khaled, sporting jewelry made from AK-47 ammunition; the maverick Carlos the Jackal with his taste for cigars, fine dining, and designer suits; and the radical leftists of the Baader-Meinhof Gang or the Japanese Red Army. Their attacks forged a lawless new battlefield thirty thousand feet in the air, evading the reach of security agencies, policymakers, and spies alike. Their operations rallied activist and networks in places where few had suspected their existence, leaving a trail of chaos from Bangkok to Paris to London to Washington, D.C. From the deserts of Jordan and the Munich Olympics to the Iranian Embassy Siege in London and the Beirut bombings of the early 1980s, Burke invites us into the lives and minds oft the perpetrators of these attacks, as well as the government agents and top officials who sought to foil them. Charting, too, such shattering events as the Iranian Revolution and the Lebanese civil war, he shows how, by the early 1980s, a campaign for radical change led by secular, leftist revolutionaries had given way to a far more lethal movement of conservative religious fanaticism that would dominate the decades to come.". 20260203. Extremists. Revolutionaries. Radicals. Radicalism History 20th century. Terrorism History 20th century.