Seven Votes : How WWII Changed South Africa Forever

Seven Votes : How WWII Changed South Africa Forever

Richard Steyn

Språken
FörlagJonathan Ball
ISBN9781776190362

If a mere seven more MPs had voted with Prime Minister JBM Hertzog in favour of neutrality, South Africa's history would have been quite different. Parliament's narrow decision to go to war in 1939 led to a seismic upheaval throughout the 1940s: black people streamed in their thousands from rural ar