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Book Descriptions:
"In October 1941 a young boy and his father disembarked at Durban
harbour from a large liner commissioned into emergency service by
the Allies. They were Greek refugees from their German-occupied
motherland. They spoke no English. They had little money and no
prospects. They were heroes, but no one knew that.
Some months earlier, father and son, together with two other
Greek men and seven New Zealand soldiers, had set off in an open
boat in an attempt to escape the German invaders. For two days and
nights, sailing by instinct and the stars, battered by fierce winds,
their food stocks running low, their water bottles almost empty, they
ploughed across the Mediterranean towards Crete, little knowing
that the island was soon to capitulate to the Germans.
Fortunately the escapees sailed into an Allied fleet while it was still
light and were rescued. Had they encountered the fleet in darkness
their fate might have been dire, as, sometimes, in the horrors of war
no prisoners were taken – a reality the young boy discovered not
many nights later.
The boy who stood on the Durban docks, appalled at the sight
of Zulu men doing the work of animals by pulling rickshaws, would
become one of the leading human-rights lawyers in the country that
his father had chosen because the pavements were allegedly paved
with gold. The boy was George Bizos.
Today George Bizos is a legendary name, renowned throughout the
legal profession and beyond. More than that, he is a figure recognised
in townships across South Africa. For as an advocate, Bizos is
associated with the Treason Trial of the late 1950s; the subsequent
Rivonia Trial where his colleague, client and friend Nelson Mandela
was sentenced to life imprisonment; the trial of Bram Fischer; that of
the Namibian Toivo ja Toivo; a host of major human-rights trials through
the 1970s and 1980s right up to the amnesty hearings of the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission; and, in 2004, with the treason trial of the
Zimbabwean opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, in that country. A consummate lawyer, a self-styled street fighter with a quiet tone of
voice and a beguiling smile who, in cross examination, would slice
through the evidence of security police and apartheid apologists
alike, Bizos haunted the courtrooms of the apartheid regime. For
four decades he exposed State lies and hypocrisy, State brutality
and murder. In response the State badgered and threatened him,
bugged his phone, obstructed his hearings. But the advocate was
not to be intimidated.
In this compelling and long-awaited autobiography, George Bizos
reveals the drama, the heartache and the moments of triumph, the
fears and the frustrations of his long career as an advocate. He writes,
moreover, about himself and his family, and the domestic moments
that made bearable the brutal years. He revels in his return to his
beloved Greece, his joy at the Athens Olympic Games and his love of
modern Greek poetry.
Above all, his is a warm and compassionate account, related by
a raconteur of note. It is history told from the inside."

Odyssey to Freedom by George Bizos

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