Renowned historian and bestselling author Hermann Giliomee’s condensed and updated version of The Afrikaners. Giliomee recounts the story of the Afrikaners with all its irony and drama, in a readable narrative style.

Hermann Giliomee, top historian, is seen as the world expert on the history of the Afrikaners. This book presents the essence of his previous, longer academic work in readable language. Many controversial aspects of South Africa’s past and the role therein of the group of people who in time would refer to themselves as “Afrikaners” are told in colour and flavour in story form, leaving readers with a fresh, sometimes challenging perspective on our past.