Hitler's Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang refers to Ulrike Meinhof's "characteristic inefficiency" and fellow member Siegfried Hausner's persistent bungling as an urban guerilla. The "Boston Globe" called this book "the definitive study of the Baader- Meinhof gang". In a review in the "New York Times", Stephen Spender wrote that the book is "strong on facts and useful source material and is a good crime story" but criticized it as "turgidly written". Although critical of the book's title, Klaus Vondung called the book a "penetrating study of the Red Army Faction" in his book, "The Apocalypse in Germany". Hitler's Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang
The Good Terrorist The Good Terrorist The Good Terrorist is a 1985 political novel written by the British novelist Doris Lessing. It was first published in September that year by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom and by Alfred A. Knopf in the United States. The book's protagonist is the naïve drifter Alice, who squats with a group of radicals in London and is drawn into their terrorist activities. Lessing was spurred to write "The Good Terrorist" by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) bombing of the Harrods department store in London in 1983. She had been a member of the British Communist Party,