The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s (SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2025)

** SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2025 **** A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, PROSPECT AND BBC HISTORY**A 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 Year'Brilliant ...An astonishing window not just into the origins of modern terrorism but also into our own age' RORY STEWART‘Extraordinary … told with cool authority and a novelist's eye for detail' RORY CARROLL, author of Killing ThatcherIn 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.United by their hatred of Israel, capitalism and ‘Western imperialism’, they unleashed a series of audacious attacks that brought gover