Author: Steyn, Richard.
Title: Churchill & Smuts. The Friendship.
Description: Jonathan Ball. Jeppestown 2014 Softcover 329pp. No inscription. a near Fine copy. ISBN: 9781868428007 A study in contrasts; Churchill the rambunctious and thrusting young aristocrat, Smuts the ascetic philosophical Cape farm boy of extraordinary intellectual skills. The friendship between the two men lasted until the death of Smuts in 1950. Drawing on archival sources, letters, telegrams, &c. this is a fascinating account of two men - enemies in the Anglo-Boer war, later allies in the First World War.

Keywords: biography jan smuts winston churchill south southern africa african boer war


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