Fischer's Choice. A Life of Bram Fischer - Martin Meredith

2002 first edition paperback with 164 pages in good secondhand condition. Name in ink in front. R60 postage in SA.

Regarded in his youth as having a brilliant career ahead of him, her rebelled against the apartheid system and against his own Afrikaner people. Nelson Mandela once said that he fought only against injustice not against his own people. As a defense lawyer, Fisher managed to save Mandela from the death penalty. What was equally remarkable was the role Fischer played in the underground movement aimed at overthrowing the government.

His single-handed efforts ended inevitably in failure. sentenced to life imprisonment, he was cast into solitary confinement where vengeful guards tried to break his spirit. When he was dying of cancer, government still refused all appeals to release him in the last few weeks of his life