Churchill & Smuts
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The remarkable, and often touching, friendship between Winston Churchill and Jan Smuts is a rich study in contrasts. In youth they occupied very different worlds: Churchill, the rambunctious and thrusting young aristocrat; Smuts, the ascetic, philosophical Cape farm boy who would go on to Cambridge. Brought together first as enemies in the Anglo-Boer War, and later as allies in the First World War, the men forged a friendship which spanned the first half of the twentieth century and endured until Smuts's death in 1950. Richard Steyn, author of Jan Smuts: Unafraid of Greatness, examines this close friendship through two world wars and the intervening years, drawing on a maze of archival and secondary sources including letters, telegrams and the voluminous books written about both men.
This is a fascinating account of two remarkable men in war and peace: one the leader of the Empire, the other the leader of a small fractious member of that Empire who nevertheless rose to global prominence.
CONTRIBUTORS: Richard Steyn
EAN: 9781868427994
COUNTRY: South Africa
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WEIGHT: 500 g
HEIGHT: 233 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Jonathan Ball Publishers SA
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GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, HISTORY / Military / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Leadership, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
WIDTH: 152 cm
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Book Themes:
Republic of South Africa, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Diaries, letters and journals, Political leaders and leadership, Colonialism and imperialism, Military history
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The remarkable, and often touching, friendship between Winston Churchill and Jan Smuts is a rich study in contrasts. In youth they occupied very different worlds: Churchill, the rambunctious and thrusting young aristocrat; Smuts, the ascetic, philosophical Cape farm boy who would go on to Cambridge. Brought together first as enemies in the Anglo-Boer War, and later as allies in the First World War, the men forged a friendship which spanned the first half of the twentieth century and endured until Smuts's death in 1950. Richard Steyn, author of Jan Smuts: Unafraid of Greatness, examines this close friendship through two world wars and the intervening years, drawing on a maze of archival and secondary sources including letters, telegrams and the voluminous books written about both men.
This is a fascinating account of two remarkable men in war and peace: one the leader of the Empire, the other the leader of a small fractious member of that Empire who nevertheless rose to global prominence.
CONTRIBUTORS: Richard Steyn
EAN: 9781868427994
COUNTRY: South Africa
PAGES:
WEIGHT: 500 g
HEIGHT: 233 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Jonathan Ball Publishers SA
DATE PUBLISHED:
CITY:
GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, HISTORY / Military / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Leadership, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
WIDTH: 152 cm
SPINE:
Book Themes:
Republic of South Africa, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Diaries, letters and journals, Political leaders and leadership, Colonialism and imperialism, Military history
