Playing the Enemy

Critics

• When Nelson had a ball

  Just occasionally, a sporting contest really does make history or, rather, we make history of it. Jackie Robinson broke the colour bar in American Major League Baseball in 1947 and helped unleash energies that eventually culminated in the civil right ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

• Singing from the same hymn sheet

  This is a gripping account of Nelson Mandela's political masterstroke during South Africa's 1995 Rugby World Cup. With the nation on the brink of civil war, Mandela seized on the sport once reviled by the country's blacks as a symbol of Afrikaner opp ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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  ...he had won their hearts.

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• English Books
• Hardcover 320 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1843548593
• ISBN-13: 9781843548591
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Pub date: Sep 01, 2008
• Also available as: Paperback, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani

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