Blood and Rage: History of Terrorism
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In this sweeping and deeply penetrating work, distinguished historian Michael Burleigh explores the nature of terrorism from its origins in the West to the current global threat fueled by fundamentalists. Burleigh takes us from the roots of terrorism in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Russian Nihilists, and the London-based anarchists of Black International to the various terrorist campaigns that exist today. He also explores the lives of people engaged in careers of political violence and those who are most affected by the scourge of terrorism. Authoritative, illuminating, and masterfully written, Blood and Rage sheds an unflinching light on the global threat that we are likely to face for decades to come.
Michael Burleigh
Michael Burleigh is a historian and commentator. His books include the bestselling The Third Reich: A New History, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize; Small Wars, Far Away Places, which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, The Best of Times, The Worst of Times and Day of the Assassins. He writes regularly for the The Times, Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday on international affairs and has also won a British Film Institute Award for Archival Achievement and a New York Film and Television Festival Award Bronze Medal. A Professor of Modern History, Michael was the first appointed Engelsberg Chair of History and International Relations at LSE IDEAS from 2019 to 2020, which is an annual distinguished visiting professorship, delivering public lectures to LSE's foreign policy think tank. He lives in London.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fascinating ...interesting..clear and informative documents of the history of terror groups.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Too bad this windbag didn't start where I did when I wrote a paper freshman year on terrorism: define terrorism*. Later, I wrote a newspaper article on suicide bombers, interviewing social scientists. There's an intersection there of psychology with ideology. That would be another way to go.This guy's writing resembles a freshman's or a high school kid's in a lot of ways. Kids don't know how to summarize and can't see larger themes and parallels. Windbag goes into often excruciating detail re acts of the IRA, the Baader-Meinhof gang and Black September and throws in odd personal details about the perpetrators. But the historical context and the philosophical tenets are nil. It's never crossed windbag's that there might be a distinction to be made between violent acts in an occupied country with a common enemy--a colony, let's say--that can't raise an army to conduct conventional or even guerrilla warfare--and the Italian or German Marxists of the 1970's (tho many younger readers won't pick up that they were Marxists and many more won't guess the theory or the goal behind violent acts. OK, I don't.)*A safe definition of terrorism requires ... innocent, random, civilian deaths or injury. These deaths aren't regrettable collateral effects that you try not to repeat ... they're part of the strategy to win, to get (or scare) a majority to your side. Good example: The Vietnamese communists, who started out in the 1940's assassinating rivals, quickly graduated to pitching grenades at restaurants and movie theaters; by the 1960's they would blow up an orphanage receiving US aid Oddly, Vietnam doesn't appear here. Nor does any colonial struggle unless you count late IRA (which windbag wouldn't, I think.) Nor does he ever attempt to distinguish between war and terrorism.The Italians in particular and maybe the Germans weren't really terrorists by most definitions because they targeted specific rich people (for ransom money) or high-level political or business figures (sometimes to make a political point. I think). The vast majority of the population was not in terror and not won over to the cause of the Red Brigades. BTW, didn't the Italians have a hell of a lot of members and sympathizers than Baader Meinhof? Well, you won't find out in this huge book. Communists, Islamic Jihadists and maybe the IRA are going to provide different rationales to their followers on why the deaths of innocent bystanders, children, civilians are acceptable: They're a means to an end, they're expendable infidels anyway, it's in the Koran, Ayathollah said it. *That's* part of culture, windbag.There's a little, characteristically confusing coverage re the birth of Israel (as usual with this guy, you'll never get the parties and the movements and the history straight). Then some recent recounting of Middle East atrocities. But he probably wouldn't think of Israel or the current Palestinian plight in colonial terms.Of course, assassinating colonial officials and brutal employers was a constant in England's and other European colonies. Windbag doesn't seem to know that.I looked up Deobandism in the index. Offhandedly described as an Indian Muslim response to the Hindus. Well, as we all learned after 9-11, it was an anti-colonial movement that was a precursor to some of the Muslim groups in Pakistan as well as the Taliban. I swear, the book was published just a few years ago.Well, enough windbaggery.