I've just finished it and found it completely fascinating.
I knew some of the story of course but I had no idea just how well organised the movement was, or how big, or how violent!
I also didn't know the extrodinary lengths and costs government went to to crush them or of the police brutality (I knew about the treatment in prison not of the way they were treated by police) or the bias shown by the judiciary and the double standards in sentences compared to those received by men for similar crimes.
However, this book is obviously a one sided view. Is there a similar contemporary account written by the men who opposed them? Something that attempts to explain the actions of the government, police and judiciary?