Churchill's confidant : enemy to lifelong friend /
Steyn, Richard
Churchill's confidant : enemy to lifelong friend / Ricahrd Steyn. - London : Robinson, 2017. - xii, 329 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
`The remarkable 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 farm boy from the Western Cape in South Africa who would go on to Cambridge where, in an unprecedented achievement, he sat both parts of a law tripos simultaneously and won a double first. Brought together first as enemies in the Anglo-Boer war, and later as allies in the First World War, the men forged a friendship that spanned the first half of the twentieth century and endured until smuts' death in 1950.
9781472140760
Smuts, Jan Christiaan, 1870-1950
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
Great Britain--History--20th century.
South Africa--History.
920
Churchill's confidant : enemy to lifelong friend / Ricahrd Steyn. - London : Robinson, 2017. - xii, 329 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
`The remarkable 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 farm boy from the Western Cape in South Africa who would go on to Cambridge where, in an unprecedented achievement, he sat both parts of a law tripos simultaneously and won a double first. Brought together first as enemies in the Anglo-Boer war, and later as allies in the First World War, the men forged a friendship that spanned the first half of the twentieth century and endured until smuts' death in 1950.
9781472140760
Smuts, Jan Christiaan, 1870-1950
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
Great Britain--History--20th century.
South Africa--History.
920