{"product_id":"2940045586948","title":"Hitler's Children","description":"\u003cp\u003eHitler's Children is a fast-paced historical\/political thriller about Germany's Red Army Faction (aka the Baader-Meinhof group). The novel begins in April 1977 when a Red Army Faction unit assassinates Siegfried Buback, the chief prosecutor at the trial of RAF leaders Andreas Baader, Gudrun Enslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe. A few months later the group assassinates the president of the Dresdner Bank and, with the aid of international terrorist Ilyich Ramirez-Sanchez (the notorious “Carlos”), they abduct Hanns-Martin Schleyer, the CEO of Daimler-Benz, and demand the release of the RAF leaders. When negotiations stall four Palestinian terrorists, claiming solidarity with the RAF, hijack a Lufthansa jet with 87 passengers on board. Interspersed with these events is the story of an American expatriate, Andy Hodge, living in Bremen. He is a former Vietnam War protestor who is involved with a left wing group at the university, but suddenly finds himself caught up in an intricate plot to assassinate the Chancellor in which he too becomes a target.\u003cbr\u003eMost of the characters in the novel are products of the imagination, but several are historical figures. Although 1977 was the zenith of Baader-Meinhof activity, the group continued to surface periodically for more than two decades afterwards. Today historians, political scientists, and sociologists, are re-evaluating the impact of Germany’s Red Army Faction, Italy’s Red Brigades, and the United States’ Weather Underground as precursors of the new terrorism that culminated with 9\/11\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ralph Young","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078196379888,"sku":"2940045586948","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940045586948_p0.jpg?v=1763977687","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940045586948","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}