Young Mandela The Revolutionary Years

Nelson Mandela is one of the world's greatest idols. He has been mythologised as a flawless hero of the liberation struggle. But how exactly did his early personal and political life shape the triumphs to come? This book goes behind the myth to find the man who people have forgotten or never knew - Young Mandela, the commited freedom fighter, who left his wife and children behind to go on the run from the police in the early 1960s. Mandela's historic achievements came with a heavy price - this biography graphically describes the emotional turmoil he left in his wake.