Mission Improbable: A Piece of the South African Story
by Rosenthal, Richard
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 086486390X
- ISBN 13
- 9780864863904
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
David Philip Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 500 g; X, 300 pages, indexed. Includes facsimiles of correspondence. Photographic illustrated paperback binding. Foreword by Thabo Mbeki. The book has been read, and has minor rubbing and creasing of the paperback binding. . In his foreword the Deputy President hails the telling at last, after years of confidentiality, of this remarkable story of a peace mission undertaken by a South African lawyer in the late 1980s, in the personal quest for a negotiated settlement between the national government of PW Botha and the ANC, in the hope of avoiding anarchy and civil war. Excepted secretly as an intermediary by State President PW Botha, and by the ANC outside the country, Richard Rosenthal engaged in two years of "secret diplomacy". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; History -- South Africa; Africa; ISBN: 086486390X. ISBN/EAN: 9780864863904. Inventory No: 0219052. . 9780864863904
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0219052
- Title
- Mission Improbable: A Piece of the South African Story
- Author
- Rosenthal, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 086486390X
- ISBN 13
- 9780864863904
- Publisher
- David Philip Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- BZDB2 apartheid, Botha, Mbeki, South Africa, ANC History; History -- South Africa; Africa; Unbranded ISBN: 086486390X EAN: 9780864863904 Rosenthal, Richard Mission Improbable: A Piece of the South African Story
- Bookseller catalogs
- History -- South Africa;
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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