The Hilton Bombing: Evan Pederick and the Ananda Marga
Melbourne University Press, $34.99 pb, 338 pp, 9780522875492
The Hilton Bombing: Evan Pederick and the Ananda Marga by Imre Salusinszky
by Jacqueline Kent •
Since 9/11 and all its attendant horrors, the story of the bomb that exploded outside Sydney’s Hilton Hotel early on the morning of 13 February 1978, killing three people and injuring nine others, has largely been cast aside. However, it is considered the worst terrorist act perpetrated on Australian soil. It had wide ramifications at the time, and murky issues still surround it.
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