It was 2.15 p.m. on 11 February 1990 when Nelson Mandela emerged. Half a million people had waited for hours in the hot sun, but millions more had waited 27 years for the great man's release. It was not just his long imprisonment and dramatic release that made Madela such a potent symbol, but his policy of peaceful reconciliation and multiracial democracy, leading to the eventual defeat of apartheid Read the fascinating account of Mandela's long struggle for freedom along with the words and deeds of many other great leaders who changed the course of history during the last 100 years forever.
Leaders include Lucky Luciano, Al Capone, Emmeline Pankhurst, Gold Meir, Mahatma Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Fidel Castro, Lech Walesa, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Indira Gandhi, Eva Peron, Lenin, Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Charles de Gaulle, Mikhail Gorbachev, Martin Luther King, Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, Nelson Mandela, John F. Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher, Osama bin Laden, Barack Obama
