New Books in Military History · Marshall Poe
Jason Burke, "The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s" (Knopf, 2026)
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Jason Burke discovered that key moments in the 1972 Munich Olympics attack, widely believed to have happened, never actually occurred.
As heard by us
A steady look at hijacking, militancy, and how terrorism's meaning changed in the 1970s.
Jason Burke's discussion of The Revolutionists is steady and clear-eyed. It traces how extremist hijackings helped shape the 1970s, then shows how the conflict changed once later violence in Lebanon raised the stakes.
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You want the 1970s hijacking era explained as politics, spectacle, and escalation, not nostalgia.
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