The Madison bombings: The story of one of the two largest vehicle-bombings ever [Hardcover]

Michael Spence Lowdell Morris (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 418 pages
• Publisher: Research House; 1st edition (1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0947002308
• ISBN-13: 978-0947002305
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,750,220 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The History of Terror Begins Here, October 26, 2002

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Tom Mannis (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Madison bombings: The story of one of the two largest vehicle-bombings ever (Hardcover)

Michael Morris is a brilliant writer. The story he so adeptly captures here is one that should not be forgotten, and Mr. Morris's research was painstaking and thorough. I was 15 year old when I watched the firefighters extinguish the last of the blaze within the shattered Sterling Hall. In the aftermath of the bombing, the city of Madison and the whole of the anti-war movement in America were stunned. This book impressed me so much that I have written a screenplay based on it. I know from talking to several principal figures in the book that Michael Morris's work is respected highly. Read this book. You will not forget it.

4.0 out of 5 stars History as exciting as any fictional police procedural, March 8, 2005

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John (Madison, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Madison bombings: The story of one of the two largest vehicle-bombings ever (Hardcover)

I was there, and this book is as accurate as I remember the times to be.

Mr. Morris is a South African with police background. His prose is a little bit stilted due to writing in South African English, but that only adds to its charm.

The Sterling Hall bombing of 1970 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, and the surrounding events, including detailed investigation, reads like gripping fiction, although it is a fact by fact, procedure by procedure narrative of the largest attack using an improvised explosive device (IED) before the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon.

Mr. Morris is also able to convey the attackers' motivations well. While clearly on the side of the "establishment," Mr. Morris shows empathy for the turbulence of the times as well.