History of South Africa

‘A remarkable feat of scholarship, fairness and readability, full of lively detail with a freshness of style which brings new life to the narrative’ Anthony Sampson

Reviews

‘A masterly synthesis of past and present scholarship historical storytelling in the grand narrative tradition’
Mail & Guardian
‘Sweeping, exhaustive and masterly’
Scotland on Sunday
‘Excellent… a balanced account of a very complex story’
Stephen Fleming, Irish Independent
‘Vital to an understanding of modern South Africa’
Publishers Weekly
‘His assessments are judicious, his opinions fair. Welsh maintains a clear narrative thread through this hugely complex story’
Stephen Taylor, New York Times Book Review