From the editor of "Long Walk To Freedom" comes the true story of the life of Nelson Mandela before his 27-year imprisonment in 1962. Although best known as the first black President of South Africa, as a youth he was a committed terrorist who left his wife and children behind to spend a year on the run in the racist South Africa of the early 1960s, sleeping in safe houses, using false names and organised the first strikes in a campaign of violence to overthrown the apartheid state. Smith re-examines his formative years, and the South Africa he grew up in.