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Churchill's confidant : enemy to lifelong friend / Ricahrd Steyn.

By: Publication details: London : Robinson, 2017.Description: xii, 329 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781472140760
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 920
Summary: `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.
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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.

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