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  • The State vs. Nelson Mandela

    The Trial that Changed South Africa

    The only account of this seminal trial, written by Mandela's defence attorneyThe only account of this seminal trial, written by Mandela’s defence lawyer and with a new foreword by Denis Goldberg, accused alongside Mandela and sentenced to life imprisonment.On 11 July 1963, police raided Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia near Johannesburg, arresting alleged members of the high command of the armed wing of ... Read more

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  • Long Walk to Freedom

    The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

    "Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history – and then go out and change it." –President Barack ObamaNelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. After his triumphant release in 1990 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Mandela

    The Authorised Biography

    Widely considered to be the most important biography of Nelson Mandela, Antony Sampson’s remarkable book has been updated with an afterword by acclaimed South African journalist, John Battersby.Long after his presidency of South Africa, Nelson Mandela remained an inspirational figure to millions – both in his homeland and far beyond. He has been, without doubt, one of the most important figures in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Downing Street Years

    1979–1990

    This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister - the formation of her goals in the early 1980s, the Falklands, the General Election victories of 1983 and 1987 and, eventually, the circumstances of her fall from political power. She also gives frank accounts of her dealings with foreign statesmen and her own ministers. ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Playing the Enemy

    Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation

    by John Carlin ...
    Read the book that inspired the Academy Award and Golden Globe winning 2009 film INVICTUS featuring Morgan Freeman and Matt Daymon, directed by Clint Eastwood.Beginning in a jail cell and ending in a rugby tournament- the true story of how the most inspiring charm offensive in history brought South Africa together. After being released from prison and winning South Africa's first free election, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Conversations with Myself

    An insightful collection of writings and interviews from the South African president, Nobel laureate, and former political prisoner."Outstanding. . . . Belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in the nature of power and resistance." — The New York Times Review of BooksNelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • JFK: History in an Hour

    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.John Fitzgerald Kennedy, America’s youngest President, was assassinated barely one thousand days into his Presidency. In the fiftieth anniversary of his death, this is the story of the man who brought an aspirational new approach to American politics.Born into the glamorous cast of Kennedys, JFK was propelled to political success despite family ... Read more

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  • Pale Native

    Memories of a Renegade Reporter

    by Max du Preez ...
    Max du Preez has one hell of a story to tell. In his career as a renegade reporter, he’s survived three dismissals, seven libel suits, thirteen criminal cases, four aeroplane crashes, a bombing, two assassination attempts and was a regular on right-wing hit lists. He was in Soweto on 16 June 1976, witnessed the debauched parties of apartheid cabinet ministers, and stepped over dead bodies in a ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

  • Bitter Harvest

    Zimbabwe and the Aftermath of its Independence

    by Ian Smith ...
    In July 2007, Zimbabwe's worsening economy saw inflation skyrocket to 7,634 per cent, deepening the already chronic food shortages in a country where only one in five of the adult population is in employment.Months later, on 20 November 2007, Ian Smith, the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia died, leaving behind him a lifetime of resistance to black majority rule and the dangers that he believed it ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Imperial Reckoning

    The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction“Caroline Elkins has written an important book that can change our understanding not just of Africa but of ourselves. —Bill Berkeley, author of The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of AfricaA major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in Kenya.As ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Iron Lady: The Thatcher Years

    The Thatcher Years

    by Stephen Blake ...
    Allowing you to uncover the woman behind the 'Iron Lady' image, 'Iron Lady: The Thatcher Years' takes a thorough yet lighthearted look at the life and times of Britain's longest-serving twentieth-century prime minister. As both the first woman to become leader of a European country and the first British premier to achieve re-election for three consecutive terms, Margaret Thatcher's legacy is such ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Tell Me No Lies

    Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs

    by John Pilger ...
    Tell Me No Lies is a celebration of the very best investigative journalism, and includes writing by some of the greatest practitioners of the craft: Seymour Hersh on the My Lai massacre; Paul Foot on the Lockerbie cover-up; Wilfred Burchett, the first Westerner to enter Hiroshima following the atomic bombing; Israeli journalist Amira Hass, reporting from the Gaza Strip in the 1990s; Gunter ... Read more

    $16.79 USD