Assault at Mogadishu

by Kai Hermann

English, German (translation)

Genres: Germany

Paperback

Published January 1, 1977

About the author

Kai Hermann is a German journalist born in 1938,[1] who contributed to the magazines Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, Twen, and Stern, and published multiple works including "La révolte des étudiants" and "Intervention décisive à Mogadiscio". He is also co-author of Christiane F.: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, with Horst Rieck.

He is a Théodor-Wolff Prize laureate, and recipient of the Carl-v-Ossietzky Medal.

Reviews

[Jeremy Jay · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stirring. Reads like an official recount. The second last sentence sums the affair, and is still the crux of many issues today.

…Is it possible for countries to react against terrorism without threatening the very freedom they seek to defend?

This happened in 1977…

Have state and non-state actors been able to effectively terrorise populations to greater effect in the past few years?

[Misterawi Bahatawi · Rating 4 out of 5]

A page turning thriller that could easily be mistaken for fiction . In the backdrop of the bifurcation of international politics in the Cold War. Understood by most to be the bipolar orders of Soviet east and capitalist west, in the eyes of these young militant Arab activists a synthesis of Neo- nazis and zionists exists.Opposed solely by the anti imperialist internationalist forces they represent, joined in their struggle by their German comrades in the revolutionary armed faction, the Japanese red army and International Student movement and workers movements at large . The events occur in the aftermath of May 68 Paris, the Italian hot autumn, and precede the 74 Ethiopian student Revolution by a year. At this time flight highjacking still remains a part of the pflps arsenal in raising awareness of the Palestinian struggle. The comittedness and doggedness of these such young people however misplaced their views may seem to some, are foreign as to seem unbelievable to our own era, where most are apolitical consumers with a minority engaging in a performative pastiche of what yonder may have been called student politics. Ends with a question worth pondering “ is it possible for countries to react against terrorism without endangering the very freedom they wish to protect?”

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

An exciting and true tale of rescue, from the era of airplane hijackings