Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Invictus Soon to be a major motion picture, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman, "Invictus" tells the story of Nelson Mandela's ambitious plan to use South Africa's national rugby team to engage the still deeply divided country.
Full description- Publisher: Penguin USA
- Published: 18 November 2009
- Format: Paperback 274 pages
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- Categories: African History | Sport | Rugby Union
- ISBN 13: 9780143117155 ISBN 10: 0143117157
- Sales rank: 311,691
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Full description for Invictus
Beginning in a jail cell and ending in a rugby tournament--the true story of how the most inspiring charm offensive in history brought South Africa together. After being released from prison and winning South Africa's first free election, Nelson Mandela presided over a country still deeply divided by fifty years of apartheid. His plan was ambitious if not far-fetched: use the national rugby team, the Springboks--long an embodiment of white-supremacist rule--to embody and engage a new South Africa as they prepared to host the 1995 World Cup. The string of wins that followed not only defied the odds, but capped Mandela's miraculous effort to bring South Africans together again in a hard-won, enduring bond. Watch a Video
