For the Angry Brigade in Britain, see Vague (1997); for Action Directe in France, see Dartnell (1995). For Italy, see Della Porta (1995) for an overview, Moss (1989) for a thorough, and Cantazaro (1991) for a multifaceted account.

Essential for all aspects of German leftist terrorism is Kraushaar (2006) and Weinhauer (2006), unfortunately not available in English, whereas ID-Verlag (1997) presents the RAF’s extensive texts. Aust (1987) chronicles the actions and characters of the RAF in detail but lacks context and analysis, as does Baumann’s (1977) personal account of the 2nd June movement.

For a comparative approach including state response see Katzenstein’s (1998) synthesis and Varon (2004).

• Aust, Stefan. The Baader-Meinhof Group: The Inside Story of a Phenomenon. London: The Bodley Head, 1987.
• Baumann, Bommi. How It All Began: A Personal Account of a West German Urban Guerilla. Vancouver: Pulp, 1977.
• Catanzaro, Raimondo, ed. The Red Brigades and Left-wing Terrorism in Italy. London: Printer, 1991.
• Dartnell, Michael. Action Directe: Ultra-Left Terrorism in France, 1979–1987. London: Frank Cass, 1995.
• Della Porta, Donatella. “Left-Wing Terrorism in Italy.” In Terrorism in Context, edited by Martha Crenshaw, 105–59. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.
• Id-Verlag, ed. Rote Armee Fraktion. Texte und Materialien zur Geschichte der RAF. Berlin: ID, 1997.
• Katzenstein, Peter. Left-Wing Violence and State Response: United States, Germany, Italy and Japan, 1960s–1990s. Institute for European Studies Working Paper 98.1. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 1998.
• Kraushaar, Wolfgang ed. Die RAF und der linke Terrorismus. 2 vols. Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2006.
• Moss, David. The Politics of Left Wing Violence in Italy, 1969–1985. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1989.
• Vague, Tom. Anarchy in the UK. The Angry Brigade. London: AK, 1997.
• Varon, Jeremy. Bringing the War Home. The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
• Weinhauer, Klaus et al., eds. Terrorismus in der Bundesrepublik. Medien, Staat und Subkulturen in den 1970er Jahren. Frankfurt: Campus, 2006.