- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Scribner; New edition edition (6 Sep 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743259181
- ISBN-13: 978-0743259187
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 15.2 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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- #98 in Books > History > Political History > Anarchism
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Stuart Christie, Britain's most famous anarchist, was at the centre of two events that define a forgotten, radical period of British history - a period when people thought they could change the world.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I picked this book up at book shop here in Edinburgh. I'd never heard of it - and was amused by a young Scottish Anarchist trying to blow Franco up. I've not been able to put it down since getting it - it is absolutely fascinating. Not only is the personal story rivetting - but it also has reminded me of past struggles to try and makes social change to make a better society. It also made me realise that the things we were protesting again are still there and the struggle for right and equality are still valid. Society here in Britian and the World has changed so much; in the past there were struggle for justice - but now we are so seduced into the aquiring of property and that if you are not you feel like some dinosaur from the past. This book has reminded me what it is all about and that that niggling feeling that you don't fit in and buy into the consumerist ideology isn't that you have a problem but that the problem is the make up of society. It is also relevent when we are seeing protests against world poverty and the other protest against what is going on - in reminding us that we each can make a differnence - when se so often feel that our voices are lost. If for nothing else I have to thank Stuart Christie for reminding me of this. I'd recommend this book to anyone to read. Even if you do not happen to agree with the politics - I am sure that reading his account of incarciartion in a Franco gaol - where invertantly this ended up putting him into contact with some of Spain's greatest academics - will find it fascinating
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is 'real-life boys-own anarchist meets the establishment' adventure! And meeting the Spanish establishment (in a hare-brained plot to kill the Spanish dictator Franco in the 1960s) was where Christie bites off a wee bit more than he can chew. If that's not enough reason to buy the book, you get a richly-evoked Glasgow childhood and more shenanigans in London in the 1970s with bomb plots, squatters and of course the Old Bill.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Although written from an anarchists point of view,I found this book to be of great interest to me as an enlightening commentary on many events that I heard of during my lifetime. It is written by someone who is now a small part of history. I would recommend this to anyone who is interested in alternative politics.
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