THE SWORD AND THE PEN:

xv, 608 pages. Paperback.

Signed inscription from Sparks on the title page.

Sparks, a fifth generation South African and veteran journalist, joined his first newspaper at seventeen. When he set out to write his autobiography, his position as a powerful journalist with access to all sides of the political spectrum led to a book that provides a fine, very readable, account of South African history over the last six decades.