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.Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism

by: Michael Burleigh

February 18, 2008
Burleigh's book is raw, historical background which by volume would do credit to a good research assistant but, by value, needs editing and organisation. He chronicles a number of terrorist campaigns, deals with movements - the attention seekers - violent struggles in Spain and Ireland. He then considers Islamic terrorism. The trouble with raw data it is hard to digest.

In a book of too few conclusions, he points out that terrorism attracts the worst and the dullest, a way of making mundane lives meaningful, gaining notoriety. It can be exciting, for a while. That "the milieu of terrorists is morally squalid, when it is not merely criminal" often gullible and psychotic. Idealists usually are weaker than the criminals attracted ... Read More:
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