'Trust me: this is a fine book' Spectator'The book tells us as much about Brown's own personal journey as it does about the courage of those he describes ... very moving' GuardianFormer Prime Minister Gordon Brown explores the lives of eight outstanding twentieth-century figures, in order to better understand courage:South African anti-apartheid icon and later President Nelson Mandela, jailed for his activismHeroic nurse Edith Cavell, executed for her helping Allied soldiers to escape occupied BelgiumAnti-Nazi cleric Dietrich Bonhoeffer, executed for his beliefs as Nazi Germany collapsedCivil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, assassinated for his efforts to end white supremacyPolitician Robert F. Kennedy, assassinated on the eve of the Democratic National ConventionNurse Cicely Saunders, a founder of the hospice movementBurmese civil rights leader and former President Aung San Suu Kyi, removed from power in a military coupDiplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from the HolocaustThese eight heroes are very different people, with very different strengths and frailties, but all share an extraordinary and inspirational courage that Brown celebrates in these fascinating and moving portraits.