Jason Burke
@jasonburke2.bsky.social
Author of The Revolutionists: the story of the extremists who hijacked the 1970s, Baillie Gifford shortlist, lots of nice reviews, out now https://shorturl.at/aLfVb. Apparently "veteran" foreign correspondent etc too. Oh, and a dad.
this is great too, The Revolutionists a book of the year in list in BBC History Extra, one of my all time favourite magazines, thanks to Onyeka Nubia
there is not a book on the list I am not desperate to find time to read ..
www.historyextra.com/magazine/his...
there is not a book on the list I am not desperate to find time to read ..
www.historyextra.com/magazine/his...
Best history books 2025: BBC History Magazine’s Books of the Year
In the roster of laudable history books published in 2025, authors tackled topics as diverse as Gaza, Indian partition, extinction, medieval and Stuart monarchs – even historians themselves. Here, a p...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
this is great too, The Revolutionists a book of the year in list in BBC History Extra, one of my all time favourite magazines, thanks to Onyeka Nubia
there is not a book on the list I am not desperate to find time to read ..
www.historyextra.com/magazine/his...
there is not a book on the list I am not desperate to find time to read ..
www.historyextra.com/magazine/his...
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v pleased to see The Revolutionists has made it onto Financial Times' list of history books of the year...
in some v fine company too
in some v fine company too
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
v pleased to see The Revolutionists has made it onto Financial Times' list of history books of the year...
in some v fine company too
in some v fine company too
oooh and The Revolutionists on the Economist books of the year list too. very exciting.
lots of amazing other things to read on this too, if anyone needs ideas for xmas presents
lots of amazing other things to read on this too, if anyone needs ideas for xmas presents
November 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
oooh and The Revolutionists on the Economist books of the year list too. very exciting.
lots of amazing other things to read on this too, if anyone needs ideas for xmas presents
lots of amazing other things to read on this too, if anyone needs ideas for xmas presents
v pleased to see The Revolutionists has made it onto Financial Times' list of history books of the year...
in some v fine company too
in some v fine company too
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
v pleased to see The Revolutionists has made it onto Financial Times' list of history books of the year...
in some v fine company too
in some v fine company too
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This is so good: a friend and I are trading anecdotes from it about velvet trousers, topless sunbathing and compulsory simultaneous orgasms
I am loving @jasonburke2.bsky.social’s new book. It’s superb, especially on the absurdity of some of the Europeans involved.
November 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This is so good: a friend and I are trading anecdotes from it about velvet trousers, topless sunbathing and compulsory simultaneous orgasms
I'll just leave this here ...
(tho the simultaneous orgasms involve Italian radical leftists, if u were wondering)
thank you james
(tho the simultaneous orgasms involve Italian radical leftists, if u were wondering)
thank you james
This is so good: a friend and I are trading anecdotes from it about velvet trousers, topless sunbathing and compulsory simultaneous orgasms
I am loving @jasonburke2.bsky.social’s new book. It’s superb, especially on the absurdity of some of the Europeans involved.
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I'll just leave this here ...
(tho the simultaneous orgasms involve Italian radical leftists, if u were wondering)
thank you james
(tho the simultaneous orgasms involve Italian radical leftists, if u were wondering)
thank you james
thank you James. from you especially very much appreciated.
I am loving @jasonburke2.bsky.social’s new book. It’s superb, especially on the absurdity of some of the Europeans involved.
November 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
thank you James. from you especially very much appreciated.
v pleased to report that
The Spectator
likes #TheRevolutionists too. Is "superb and monumental" apparently. which is very nice to read.
And makes good point on how few people it took to cause carnage half way round the world ...
www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-...
The Spectator
likes #TheRevolutionists too. Is "superb and monumental" apparently. which is very nice to read.
And makes good point on how few people it took to cause carnage half way round the world ...
www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-...
November 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
v pleased to report that
The Spectator
likes #TheRevolutionists too. Is "superb and monumental" apparently. which is very nice to read.
And makes good point on how few people it took to cause carnage half way round the world ...
www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-...
The Spectator
likes #TheRevolutionists too. Is "superb and monumental" apparently. which is very nice to read.
And makes good point on how few people it took to cause carnage half way round the world ...
www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-...
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🚨NEW🚨 Figures like Leila Khaled and Carlos the Jackal turned political violence into global theatre. @jasonburke2.bsky.social joins @seththevoz.bsky.social to discuss how these figures reshaped global politics, and what their legacy reveals about ideology, glamour and violence 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
October 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🚨NEW🚨 Figures like Leila Khaled and Carlos the Jackal turned political violence into global theatre. @jasonburke2.bsky.social joins @seththevoz.bsky.social to discuss how these figures reshaped global politics, and what their legacy reveals about ideology, glamour and violence 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
An excellent idea .... am currently preparing a playlist for the US edition launch. Thank you Andrew.
Book alert klaxon. Hugely enjoying "The Revolutionists" by @jasonburke2.bsky.social. Pairs well with a soundtrack of @lukehaines.bsky.social's "Baader Meinhof" album. www.penguin.co.uk/books/440432...
The Revolutionists
Immersive, globe-spanning and full of detail and drama, The Revolutionists is an unprecedented account of a seismic decade that transformed the modern world.
In the 1970s, a network of radical extrem...
www.penguin.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
An excellent idea .... am currently preparing a playlist for the US edition launch. Thank you Andrew.
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v happy this a.m. to see👇
a comprehensive and kind review of #TheRevolutionists in the Guardian.
"combines a flair for period detail – sideburns and aviator shades, berets and Beretta pistols – with impressive digests of Arab and Iranian history".
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
a comprehensive and kind review of #TheRevolutionists in the Guardian.
"combines a flair for period detail – sideburns and aviator shades, berets and Beretta pistols – with impressive digests of Arab and Iranian history".
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
The Revolutionists by Jason Burke review – from hijackings to holy war
A colourful study of the evolution of extremism in the tumultuous 1970s
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:39 AM
v happy this a.m. to see👇
a comprehensive and kind review of #TheRevolutionists in the Guardian.
"combines a flair for period detail – sideburns and aviator shades, berets and Beretta pistols – with impressive digests of Arab and Iranian history".
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
a comprehensive and kind review of #TheRevolutionists in the Guardian.
"combines a flair for period detail – sideburns and aviator shades, berets and Beretta pistols – with impressive digests of Arab and Iranian history".
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
v happy this a.m. to see👇
a comprehensive and kind review of #TheRevolutionists in the Guardian.
"combines a flair for period detail – sideburns and aviator shades, berets and Beretta pistols – with impressive digests of Arab and Iranian history".
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
a comprehensive and kind review of #TheRevolutionists in the Guardian.
"combines a flair for period detail – sideburns and aviator shades, berets and Beretta pistols – with impressive digests of Arab and Iranian history".
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
The Revolutionists by Jason Burke review – from hijackings to holy war
A colourful study of the evolution of extremism in the tumultuous 1970s
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:39 AM
v happy this a.m. to see👇
a comprehensive and kind review of #TheRevolutionists in the Guardian.
"combines a flair for period detail – sideburns and aviator shades, berets and Beretta pistols – with impressive digests of Arab and Iranian history".
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
a comprehensive and kind review of #TheRevolutionists in the Guardian.
"combines a flair for period detail – sideburns and aviator shades, berets and Beretta pistols – with impressive digests of Arab and Iranian history".
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
With no law, order or any alternative administration under the ceasefire, the group is using violence to deter rivals and to hang onto power. this will have consequences for any "peace" deal. My take here:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Hamas’s aim to retain authority in Gaza involves keeping the guns
With no law, order or any alternative administration under the ceasefire, the group is using violence to deter rivals
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
With no law, order or any alternative administration under the ceasefire, the group is using violence to deter rivals and to hang onto power. this will have consequences for any "peace" deal. My take here:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
In 1982, a US president told Israel to end a war. The lessons from then are very relevant now. It's not the threat you fought that is the problem, but the one that is coming.
A quick oped based on my new book, #TheRevolutionists (out now)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A quick oped based on my new book, #TheRevolutionists (out now)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A lasting peace between Israel and Palestine? We’ve heard that before – the result was more bloodshed | Jason Burke
In 1982, Ronald Reagan picked up the phone to Menachem Begin to tell him to end a war. There are lessons from history and we need to learn them, says Guardian international security correspondent Jaso...
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
In 1982, a US president told Israel to end a war. The lessons from then are very relevant now. It's not the threat you fought that is the problem, but the one that is coming.
A quick oped based on my new book, #TheRevolutionists (out now)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A quick oped based on my new book, #TheRevolutionists (out now)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
like it or not, Netanyahu dominates Israeli politics, now as before. If anyone thinks the ceasefire is the endgame for a man who has been in power in Israel longer than David Ben Gurion, founding father, then think again ...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘Yes Bibi, or no Bibi’: what does Gaza deal mean for Benjamin Netanyahu’s future?
Widespread support among Israelis for the ceasefire is unlikely to translate into votes for Likud, survey shows
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
like it or not, Netanyahu dominates Israeli politics, now as before. If anyone thinks the ceasefire is the endgame for a man who has been in power in Israel longer than David Ben Gurion, founding father, then think again ...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
yes, there is much that can go wrong, yes the destruction,scars and trauma will be with us for decades, but to now write about a possible, imminent, even definitive end to this bloody, relentless, appalling war is ... well... a moment
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘First phase’ of ceasefire deal to end war in Gaza agreed by Israel and Hamas
Donald Trump announces all hostages will be released ‘very soon’ and Israel will withdraw troops to an agreed timeline
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
yes, there is much that can go wrong, yes the destruction,scars and trauma will be with us for decades, but to now write about a possible, imminent, even definitive end to this bloody, relentless, appalling war is ... well... a moment
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
I'll be talking about my new book and
The Remarkable True Story of The Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s .. tonight in London
expect spies, explosions, getaway cars, war, politics, assassinations and beauty queens
book last seats here:
kilntheatre.com/whats-on/the...
The Remarkable True Story of The Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s .. tonight in London
expect spies, explosions, getaway cars, war, politics, assassinations and beauty queens
book last seats here:
kilntheatre.com/whats-on/the...
The Revolutionists: The Remarkable True Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970's | Kiln Theatre
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October 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I'll be talking about my new book and
The Remarkable True Story of The Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s .. tonight in London
expect spies, explosions, getaway cars, war, politics, assassinations and beauty queens
book last seats here:
kilntheatre.com/whats-on/the...
The Remarkable True Story of The Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s .. tonight in London
expect spies, explosions, getaway cars, war, politics, assassinations and beauty queens
book last seats here:
kilntheatre.com/whats-on/the...
v pleased by v kind review of The Revolutionists (published on Friday) in the Times. esp as by legendary Simon Sebag Montefiore. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
October 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
v pleased by v kind review of The Revolutionists (published on Friday) in the Times. esp as by legendary Simon Sebag Montefiore. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
so this is nuts, and very nice. My new book #TheRevolutionists has actually made it onto the Baillie Gifford prize shortlist. It is published today too. To say I'm thrilled would be something of an understatement.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
‘Horny wolves, eunuchs and pirates’ among Baillie Gifford prize shortlist subjects
Helen Garner and Richard Holmes among authors of nonfiction books that also encompass international terrorists and ‘ghastly literary men’
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
so this is nuts, and very nice. My new book #TheRevolutionists has actually made it onto the Baillie Gifford prize shortlist. It is published today too. To say I'm thrilled would be something of an understatement.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
For many Israelis, Netanyahu’s warning to get used to growing isolation confirmed what they already suspected of his priorities - but will also reinforce his political base
my report from Sderot and Tel Aviv here ICYMI
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
my report from Sderot and Tel Aviv here ICYMI
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
‘Water off a duck’s back’: will Israel’s growing isolation make its leadership change course?
For many Israelis, Netanyahu’s warning to get used to growing isolation confirmed what they already suspected of his priorities
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 8:07 AM
For many Israelis, Netanyahu’s warning to get used to growing isolation confirmed what they already suspected of his priorities - but will also reinforce his political base
my report from Sderot and Tel Aviv here ICYMI
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
my report from Sderot and Tel Aviv here ICYMI
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
this is powerful, moving and important from my fantastic colleague in Gaza, Malak Tantesh
(and that's her dad in the hat, a very dear friend)
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
(and that's her dad in the hat, a very dear friend)
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
Escaping Gaza City, while reporting on its destruction – podcast
Malak A Tantesh on fleeing the Israeli ground offensive in Gaza and becoming a reporter in the most dangerous place on Earth for journalists
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
this is powerful, moving and important from my fantastic colleague in Gaza, Malak Tantesh
(and that's her dad in the hat, a very dear friend)
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
(and that's her dad in the hat, a very dear friend)
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
very pleased with this review in the FT of my new book - The Revolutionists (out in 1O days in UK).
"dramatic, deeply researched account looks at the hijackings and hostage-takings of the 1970s — and their connection with radicalism today"
www.ft.com/content/96d6...
"dramatic, deeply researched account looks at the hijackings and hostage-takings of the 1970s — and their connection with radicalism today"
www.ft.com/content/96d6...
The Revolutionists — the extremists who took terror into the skies
Jason Burke’s dramatic, deeply researched account looks at the hijackings and hostage-takings of the 1970s — and their connection with radicalism today
www.ft.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
very pleased with this review in the FT of my new book - The Revolutionists (out in 1O days in UK).
"dramatic, deeply researched account looks at the hijackings and hostage-takings of the 1970s — and their connection with radicalism today"
www.ft.com/content/96d6...
"dramatic, deeply researched account looks at the hijackings and hostage-takings of the 1970s — and their connection with radicalism today"
www.ft.com/content/96d6...
very pleased that The Revolutionists is on the Baillie Gifford longlist with 11 brilliant works by brilliant writers. they've even done a nice little video. and my book looks v handsome indeed!
youtu.be/W34vK8Tpcz0
youtu.be/W34vK8Tpcz0
The Ballie Gifford Prize for non-fiction announces the 2025 longlist
YouTube video by The Baillie Gifford Prize
youtu.be
September 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
very pleased that The Revolutionists is on the Baillie Gifford longlist with 11 brilliant works by brilliant writers. they've even done a nice little video. and my book looks v handsome indeed!
youtu.be/W34vK8Tpcz0
youtu.be/W34vK8Tpcz0
Hamas is hurting, undoubtedly, but still has a plan: to survive
(and to capture an Israeli soldier if possible)
My report here:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
(and to capture an Israeli soldier if possible)
My report here:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Depleted Hamas focuses on desperate new aim: capturing an Israeli soldier
Militant group has become adept at exploiting successful attacks – and now needs all the leverage it can get for talks
www.theguardian.com
July 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Hamas is hurting, undoubtedly, but still has a plan: to survive
(and to capture an Israeli soldier if possible)
My report here:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
(and to capture an Israeli soldier if possible)
My report here:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
"The scenes are truly shocking – they resemble the horrors of judgment day," Dr Mohammed Saqr, director of nursing at Gaza’s Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, told me.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Gaza aid workers overwhelmed by ‘mass casualty incidents’ at food distribution sites
Doctors say hundreds have been wounded by Israeli gunfire while trying to reach convoys
www.theguardian.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"The scenes are truly shocking – they resemble the horrors of judgment day," Dr Mohammed Saqr, director of nursing at Gaza’s Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, told me.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...