The Dynamite Club

John M. Merriman

Yale University Press

2016

288 páginas

9h 36m

ISBN-13: 9780300217926

Distinguished historian John Merriman maintains that the Age of Modern Terror began in Paris on February 12, 1894, when anarchist Emile Henry set off a bomb in the Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding twenty French citizens. The true story of the circumstances that led a young radical to commit a cold-blooded act of violence against innocent civilians makes for riveting reading, shedding new light on the terrorist mindset and on the subsequent worldwide rise of anarchism by deed. Merriman s fascinating study of modern history s first terrorists, emboldened by the invention of dynamite, reveals much about the terror of today."