In the significantly expanded third edition, Klaus Pflieger provides a comprehensive overview of the nearly 28-year history of the RAF. Pflieger has been involved with RAF cases for a long time, including serving as an interrogator during confessions from defectors, as a (co-)author of the indictments against Boock, Lotze, Haule, Mohnhaupt, and Klar, as well as a prosecutor in several RAF trials. In a detailed chronicle, he illustrates how the RAF was formed, what concepts and political goals it had, how individual actions were planned and executed, who was responsible for which crimes, what penalties were imposed, and how RAF terrorism came to an end. He also explains how the state responded to the "declaration of war" by the terrorists through judgments and new laws, and why all those convicted are now back on the streets. Finally, he engages with the topic.