'This has survived as a South African classic not just because it's
beautifully written,' wrote Anthony Sampson in the "Spectator",
'but because it conveys the combination of ordinariness and danger
which is implicit in any totalitarian state.' "The World that was
Ours" is about the events leading up to the 1964 Rivonia Trial when
Hilda Bernstein's husband was acquitted but Mandela and the 'men of
Rivonia' received life sentences. 'This passionately political
memoir,' observed "The Times", 'is vibrant with the dilemmas of
everyday family life, quick-witted dialogue, fast-paced adventure
and novelistic detail.' Yet the political background is not dwelt
on: it is simply taken for granted that civilised South Africans
fought apartheid and the uncivilised propped it up. The main
strength of the book is as an outstanding personal memoir; in this
respect it bears comparison with autobiographies by Nadezhda
Mandelstam and Christabel Bielenberg.
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