When They Came for Me: The Hidden Diary of an Apartheid Prisoner

by John Schlapobersky

Apartheid and its resistance come to life in this memoir making it a vital historical document of its time and for our own.

In 1969, while a student in South Africa, John Schlapobersky was arrested for opposing apartheid and tortured, detained and eventually deported. Interrogated through sleep deprivation, he later wrote secretly in solitary confinement about the struggle for survival.

Those writings inform this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789209064
• ISBN13: 9781789209068
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"