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The World that was Ours Gift Wrapping:None but the one thing ourPREFACE BY HILDA BERNSTEIN 416pp ISBN 9781903155400 The World that was Ours is a memoir about the events leading up to the 1964 Rivonia Trial in South Africa when Hilda Bernstein's husband Rusty was acquitted but Nelson Mandela and the 'men of Rivonia' received life sentences. 'This has survived as a South African classic not just because it's beautifully written,' wrote Anthony Sampson in the Spectator, 'but because it conveys the combination of