Book review - "One Day in September" by Simon Reeve

The story of the 1972 Olympic massacre at Munich, with the same title as the brilliant documentary on the subject. (The book accompanied the film) The documentary has it over the book in that it has the vision and the interview with the one surviving terrorist - the book is excellent, but reading it you kept wanting to watch the documentary! Its a gripping, harrowing tale - the German rescue attempt comes in for a deserved shellacking, as does the IOC (what a gutless, pathetic organisation this is). The book can pay more attention to the background to the conflict, add interviews (such as those with the family of the Palestinians) and to the attack's fall out, such as the Wrath of God avenging operation. Well written, with good footnotes and lots of original research. Few books have better described the link between terrorism and statesmanship - both Israel and the PLO are very into promoting their, shall we say, "special ops" people into leadership roles.