Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Red Army Faction Volume 1: Left-Wing Urban Guerrillas in Germany, 1967-1998: The Baader-Meinhof Gang Era, 1967-1977

Red Army Faction Volume 1: Left-Wing Urban Guerrillas in Germany, 1967-1998: The Baader-Meinhof Gang Era, 1967-1977

Francois, David

Paperback

Series: Europe@war

Social Movements

Publisher Price: $29.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 15, 2026

ISBN10: 1806720426
ISBN13: 9781806720422
Publisher: Helion & Company
Published: Sep 15 2026
Pages: 72
Language: English
A detailed study traces a small group of intellectuals who embraced urban guerrilla tactics in Germany during the 1960s-70s, shaping a controversial chapter of contemporary history.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion) plunged Germany into a state of insecurity and mass hysteria with a series of bloody attacks.

The far-left terrorist group was formed in the early 1970s around the fight against American imperialism, German police repression, capitalism, and bourgeois society, dubbed the 'new fascism'. Born in the midst of a closed-off Germany trying to bury its Nazi past, the RAF preferred action to rhetoric, urban guerrilla warfare to grand speeches. Its ultimate goal: to build, with the masses, a Red Army capable of challenging the state army.

Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, Jan Carl Raspe, and Gudrun Ensslin and Holger Meins. These names and faces still haunt the German collective memory today. They are demonised on one side, considered communist murderers, and idolised on the other, erected as martyrs. How and why did a small group of intellectuals, students, and artists become a faction of fighters ready to kill?

Red Army Faction Vol 1: The Baader-Meinhof Gang Era, 1967-1977 draws on rich documentation, recollections of participants, and scholarly work, traces this organisation whose journey intertwined the Cold War, revolutionary internationalism, and conflict in the Middle East.

Illustrated with over 80 photographs and colour profiles, it describes, in a unique study, a bloody and controversial aspect of contemporary history that continues to haunt German memory today.

Also from

Francois, David

View All

Also in

Social Movements

View All