Prisoner 913: The Release of Nelson Mandela

This book brings to life the untold story behind the release of Nelson Mandela, as revealed in previously top-secret records. Kobie Coetsee, Minister of Justice at the time, kept an archive on ‘Prisoner 913’, on which the authors – a historian and a journalist – draw to retell the story. This is history as it actually happened, as opposed to how it has been portrayed up to now, even in writings by Mandela himself. Prisoner 913 sets right the historical record. Prisoner 913 “will give readers the opportunity to meet Nelson Mandela as man, husband, father, politician, strategist and diplomat, all in his own words.” For readers and scholars with a keen interest in the history of Mandela, the book is a time machine which takes the reader to the actual moment history was made. “The reader becomes the proverbial ‘fly on the wall’ and gains immediate access to the country’s history being made in real time, undiluted and in the moment,” EXTRACT: https://www.nb.co.za/en/view-book/?id=9780624076322