"At revolution's end," from a collection of poetry "A dead tree full of live birds" by Lionel Abrahams, published by Snailpress and Hippogriff Press, 1995. -- "White hero of the black revolution faces up to his final struggle," by Phillip van Niekerk first appeared in The Observer, December 4, 1994, and reproduced by kind permission." -- title verso.

"Slovo, they came to claim their hero", by Mark Gevisser. This article first appeared in the Mail & Guardian, January 20 - 26, 1995 and is reproduced by kind permission." -- title verso

Cartoon (page 194) by Don Feller. This first appeared in the Financial Mail, Johannesburg, and is reproduced by kind permission." - title verso.

"Pictures are from the Slavo family unless otherwise credited." -- title verso.

Foreword / Nelson Mandela --

Introduction / Post-war pro Helena Dolny --

Part I. Autobiography : Return to Obel -- Joining the Communist Party -- To war and to university -- Post-war protest -- Twelve years at the bar -- Fragments from the courts -- Defiance and the Freedom Charter -- The treason trial -- Mast protest, ideology, and family life -- Sharpeville -- Memories of dentition - 1960 -- The move towards violence -- Release Mandela! --

Part II. Reflections: Introduction -- Prologue to dying -- The funeral -- International tributes -- South Africans remember -- Epilogue.

"A revealing and highly entertaining autobiography of one of the key figures of the African National Congress, described as South Africa’s “most important and most popular, white leader.” As an immigrant from Lithuania, a Jew, a communist, a guerrilla fighter and strategist — and white — few public figures in South Africa were as demonized by the apartheid government as Joe Slovo. Joe Slovo began his political life as a lawyer at the Johannesburg Bar where he was a colleague and close collaborator of Nelson Mandela in the 1950s. He also served as Mandela’s lawyer in that period. He was co-founder with Mandela of the ANC’s guerrilla movement, and became the first white person elected to the ANC national executive. Slovo began writing this autobiography after the fatal bomb attack on his wife, Ruth First, portrayed in the film “A World Apart.” After many years in prison and exile, Slovo returned to South Africa where he was to play a leading role in the constitutional negotiations. Following South Africa’s first-ever democratic election in April 1994, he won widespread respect and admiration as Minister for Housing. He died of cancer in January 1995." -- online and back cover.