The Last Afrikaner Leaders: A Supreme Test of Power

by Hermann Giliomee

Finalist for the Alan Paton Award

In his latest book, renowned historian Hermann Giliomee challenges the conventional wisdom on the downfall of white rule and the end of apartheid. Instead of impersonal forces, or the resourcefulness of an indomitable resistance movement, he emphasizes the role of Nationalist leaders and of their outspoken critic Frederick van Zyl Slabbert. What motivated each of the last Afrikaner leaders, from Verwoerd...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081393494X
• ISBN13: 9780813934945
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"