"It reads like a thriller page after page. . . . The loveliest of Hilda Bernstein’s works about the ugliest of times.”—Albie Sachs, The Independent "Were it not for ordinary heroes like the Bernsteins, South Africa would not be free today.”—Guardian It was 1963 in South Africa during Apartheid when Lionel "Rusty” Bernstein was arrested, along with Nelson Mandela and fifteen other leaders of the African National Congress. They were charged with 221 acts of sabotage designed to "ferment violent revolution.” Rusty was one of two individuals acquitted, and the rest received life sentences. In The World that was Ours, his wife, Hilda Bernstein, offers an astonishing personal account of the events leading up to the "Rivonia Trial” and describes how, as a white family with four children, they managed to fight a hostile and unjust regime. There was a long night ahead. We are unable to read. We listen all the time, listen for the sound of a car in anticipation that the police will come. If...

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