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Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation

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Soon to be a major motion picture in December 2009

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, Nelson Mandela presided over a country still deeply divided by fifty years of apartheid. His plan was ambitious if not far-fetched: use the national rugby team, the Springboks--long an embodiment of white-supremacist rule--to embody and engage a new South Africa as they prepared to host the 1995 World Cup. The string of wins that followed not only defied the odds, but capped Mandela's miraculous effort to bring South Africans together again in a hard-won, enduring bond.

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John Carlin

John Carlin has lived in Spain for the last five years. He is half-Spanish, half-British and bilingual. He has worked as a foreign correspondent for The Times, the Independent, the Observer and the Daily Mail in such diverse places as Washington, South Africa and Nicaragua, and in recent years has written extensively on football. He has scripted a Channel Four documentary on Diego Maradona.

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Product Details

  • Published by

    Penguin

  • Publish Date

    November 17, 2009 

  • Print ISBN

    0143117157

  • eBook ISBN

    9781101159927

  • Imprint

    Penguin

  • Filesize

    306.28 KB

  • Number of Print Pages*

    288

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