European gerilla: guerrilla warfare against NATO in Europe
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European gerilla: guerrilla warfare against NATO in Europe
14.99 €
In Europe, the 1960s and 1990s are often portrayed as a golden age: the economy grew, and with it the standard of living, higher education and medicine became available to the masses, the welfare state flourished, and the dark totalitarian past with its nationalism and hatred was gradually forgotten... However, in reality, not everything was so smooth. Against the background of an unprecedented rise in living standards in Europe, a new, unprecedented movement of workers and students was rising. Italy, France and Britain were shaken by multimillion-dollar strikes. Students were rising up. Thousands of young people across Europe abandoned their studies, careers, families and went underground to fight for socialism with weapons in their hands. Their main enemies were NATO, capitalism. American hegemony. Some of them died heroically in prisons and shootouts. Some betrayed the ideals of their youth and joined the liberal establishment. And some have continued the struggle to this day - sometimes changing from pistol to pen, and sometimes never laying down their arms. This book is about the leftist underground in Western Europe in the 1960s and 1990s. About the "Red Brigades" in Italy and the "Red Army Faction" in the FRG, about the Irish, Basque and Catalan national liberation movement. About the gerilla in France and the revolutionary struggle of British anarchists. About the revolutionary expropriators from Denmark and the underground in Belgium, about the Greek partisans and revolutionary pirates from Portugal.
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