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This life of a man who has been a political activist for fifty years, in one of the most difficult and complex conflicts of the twentieth
century, is a major achievement'
Martin Meredith, Observer
'The authentic voice of Mandela shines through this book .. humane, dignified and magnificently unembittered' R. W. Johnson, The Times
The autobiography succeeds because the vicissitudes Mandela has gone through in the course of his life are so dramatic that the reader cannot help responding to them as if to a fairy tale or moral fable of some kind. No hero of legend ever went through such protracted trials in order to arrive at so improbable a victory'
Dan Jacobson, Sunday Telegraph
'This is a splendid book... Justice, freedom, goodness and love have prevailed spectacularly in South Africa and one man has embodied that struggle and its vindication. This is his story and the story of that struggle and a people's victory. It is a fitting monument. It will help us never to forget, lest we in our turn repeat the ghastliness of apartheid'
Desmond Tutu, The Tablet
A compelling book... both a brilliant description of a diabolical system and a testament to the power of the spirit to transcend it... One of the most remarkable lives of the twentieth century'
Washington Post
'A work of literature as well as an important document'
Angus Calder, Scotland on Sunday
'Most searing in its portrayal of the harshness of the island prison and the author's yearning for family life. its descriptions of Mandela's period underground, including his clandestine journey through newly independent Africa'
Barbara Trapido, Spectator
century, is a major achievement'
Martin Meredith, Observer
'The authentic voice of Mandela shines through this book .. humane, dignified and magnificently unembittered' R. W. Johnson, The Times
The autobiography succeeds because the vicissitudes Mandela has gone through in the course of his life are so dramatic that the reader cannot help responding to them as if to a fairy tale or moral fable of some kind. No hero of legend ever went through such protracted trials in order to arrive at so improbable a victory'
Dan Jacobson, Sunday Telegraph
'This is a splendid book... Justice, freedom, goodness and love have prevailed spectacularly in South Africa and one man has embodied that struggle and its vindication. This is his story and the story of that struggle and a people's victory. It is a fitting monument. It will help us never to forget, lest we in our turn repeat the ghastliness of apartheid'
Desmond Tutu, The Tablet
A compelling book... both a brilliant description of a diabolical system and a testament to the power of the spirit to transcend it... One of the most remarkable lives of the twentieth century'
Washington Post
'A work of literature as well as an important document'
Angus Calder, Scotland on Sunday
'Most searing in its portrayal of the harshness of the island prison and the author's yearning for family life. its descriptions of Mandela's period underground, including his clandestine journey through newly independent Africa'
Barbara Trapido, Spectator