The Black Pimpernel : Nelson Mandela on the Run

Author: Wanner, Zukiswa

Interest age: from c 9 years

Published on 6 May 2021 by Pushkin Children's Books in the United Kingdom as part of 'the True Adventures' series.

Paperback | 144 pages
129 x 198 x 14 | 144g

In March 1961, after giving a brief speech at a conference, Nelson Mandela vanished. For the next eighteen months he was an outlaw, living under assumed identities and in various disguises (sometimes as a chauffeur, sometimes a gardener) as the South African police and secret services, helped by MI5 and the CIA, sought him in vain. His mission? To undergo military training and set up armed resistance to apartheid.