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

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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.

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.