Baader-Meinhof Group

Stefan Aust. Random House (UK), $0 (560pp) ISBN 978-0-370-31031-2

Aust's absorbing but overdetailed book recounts the appalling saga of the young urban guerrillas who during the 1970s killed 47 people, wounded 93, took 162 hostages and robbed 35 banks in an attempt to bring revolution to the Federal Republic. He introduces several key members of the Baader-Meinhof group, includingAndreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin, but they remain disappointingly two-dimensional

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