Brilliantly researched and expertly narrated, Stefan Aust's book is neither an indictment nor a defense attorney's plea. It is also not a judgment, either legally or morally. It aims to be a protocol, a chronicle of events from June 1967, when student Benno Ohnesorg was shot by a police officer, to the "German Autumn" of 1977, which includes the kidnapping and later murder of employers' president Hanns Martin Schleyer, the hijacking and rescue of passengers and crew of the Lufthansa plane "Landshut," and the suicides in the high-security wing of Stammheim. More detailed and explosive than ever: A wealth of new facts, largely brought to light through Aust's meticulous research, makes this new edition both possible and necessary. In addition to new photographic material, the author evaluates a multitude of newly discovered and recently released investigative files, as well as private records and testimonies from eyewitnesses. "Anyone who wants to form an opinion about the RAF, its origins, its structure, and its figures in the future will have to read Aust." - Die Zeit.