Playing the Enemy

John Carlin

RRP: £18.99

Publisher: ATLANTIC BOOKS

Publication Date : 01/09/2008

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

On 24 June 1995, when The Springboks played the All Blacks in the Rugby World Cup final in Johannesburg, Nelson Mandela stepped onto the pitch wearing a Springboks shirt, and before a global audience of millions, a new country was born. This book tells the incredible story of the journey to that moment, blending history and politics with sport. Part of the celebrations for Mandela's 90th birthday.

Publisher's description:

As the day of the final of the 1995 Rugby World Cup dawned, and the Springboks faced New Zealand's all-conquering All Blacks, more was at stake than a sporting trophy. This book shows how a sport, once the preserve of South Africa's Afrikaans-speaking minority, came to unify the new rainbow nation.

ISBN: 9781843548591