Churchill's confidant : enemy to lifelong friend
Steyn, Richard2018
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Brought together first as enemies in the Anglo-Boer War, and later as allies in the First World War, 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 aesthetic, philosophical Cape farm boy who would go on to Cambridge. Both were men of exceptional talents and achievements and, between them, the pair had to grapple with some of the twentieth century's most intractable issues, not least of which the task of restoring peace and prosperity to Europe after two of mankind's bloodiest wars.
Main title:
Churchill's confidant : enemy to lifelong friend / Richard Steyn.
Author:
Steyn, Richard, author
Imprint:
London : Robinson, 2018.
Collation:
xii, 329 pages : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Originally published: South Africa: Jonathan Ball, 2007.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781472140760 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
941.084092941.084 STE
Local class:
941.084092
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1929568