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The introduction of the study gives a brief overview of the book’s contents, the reasons for conducting the study and the value of returning to the 1970s novels as an approach to the study of terrorism and literature.

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Darlington, J. (2018). Introduction. In: British Terrorist Novels of the 1970s. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77896-9_1

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