The Afrikaners: Biography of a People (Reconsiderations in Southern African History)
This crowning work by one of South Africa's most prominent social scientists is likely to become a baseline for interpreting Afrikaner history for a long time to come.(Foreign Affairs)Magisterial.. The strength of the book lies in [Giliomee's] distillation of a lifetime's research and reflection into a single prodigious volume.(The Economist)A book to welcome... it includes an account of the origins and demise of apartheid that must rank as the most sober, objective and comprehensive we have.(J. M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature)A stunning achievement.(Athol Fugard)