The World That Was Ours

It was 1963 in South Africa during Apartheid when Lionel Rusty Bernstein was arrested, along with Nelson Mandela and fifteen other leaders of the African National Congress. They were charged with 221 acts of sabotage designed to ferment violent revolution. Rusty was one of two individuals acquitted, and the rest received life sentences. In The World that was Ours, his wife, Hilda Bernstein, offers an astonishing personal account of the events leading up to the Rivonia Trial and describes how, as a white family with four children, they managed to fight a hostile and unjust regime.

Softcover. English. SAWriters. 1989. ISBN: 9781872086002. 332 pp. In worn covers, name inside. Book No: 2002733