Reading Complete: Demaris

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Reading completed: Ovid Demaris's Brothers in Blood: The International Terrorist Network, published in New York by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1973.

Reading begun: Walter Laqueur's Guerrilla (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1976).

Ah, the old days when car bombs were new (Demaris credits the IRA with the invention) and any good Marxist revolutionary (like Mairin de Burca) could chide the Provisional IRA as follows (Demaris, 1973, p. 341):

"They've blown up cooperatives; they've blown up libraries; they've blown up factories where hundreds of people were employed.  Now honestly, you cannot go by what people say; you can only judge them by what they do!  A socialist organization does not throw people out of work; they don't blow up things which ordinary people depend on both for the necessities of life and for the little luxries, like a book out of the bloody library.  There isn't a library in the north left standing because the Provos blew them up."

Well, on to Laquer's work . . . .