Reviews:Offers an insight into the remarkable life of Nelson Mandela. This book gives readers access to the private man behind the public figure: from letters written in the darkest hours of Mandela's twenty-seven years of imprisonment to the draft of an unfinished sequel to "Long Walk to Freedom".

This month's cover feature and a singular publishing event, drawing on Nelson Mandela's personal archive of unseen materials. These include journals kept on the run during the anti-apartheid struggle of the early 1960s, notes written in South African prisons during his 27 years of incarceration, notebooks from the post-apartheid transition and speeches written during his presidency, offering a unique access to the private world of an incomparable world leader, brought together into a sweeping narrative. While other books have recounted Mandela's life from the vantage point of the present, this allows an unhindered insight into the human side of the icon. An audio CD is available.