Article: Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb.(Book review)

BUDA'S WAGON: A Brief History of the Car Bomb, Mike Davis, Verso, London and New York, 2007, 228 pages, $22.95.

The title of Mike Davis's short, lively history refers to an explosives-laden horse-drawn wagon that radical anarchist Mario Buda detonated on Wall Street in September 1920. The carnage wrought by Buda's prototype vehicle-borne improvised explosive device--40 dead and 200 wounded--anticipated the frequent employment of powerful vehicular bombs through the rest of the 20th and into the 21st century. Davis describes a dozen or more criminal, terrorist, and guerrilla campaigns in which impoverished or marginalized elements used car bombs to destroy enemies ...

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