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Churchill's Confidant
Jan Smuts, Enemy to Lifelong Friend
E-bok, 2018
45 kr
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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 …
Churchill & Smuts
From Enemies to Lifelong Friends
Häftad, 2019
134 kr
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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 …
Louis Botha
Krygsman, Generaal, Staatsman
E-bok, 2020
130 kr
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"Hy was een van die grootste geeste ter wêreld." – Winston ChurchillLouis Botha was ʼn briljante Boeregeneraal wie se taktiese vernuf en intuïtiewe aanslag op die front vir etlike oorwinnings oor die Britse magte gesorg het. Maar dit was sy engimatiese karakter en vaste oortuiging om to hou by wat …
Seven Votes
How WWII Changed South Africa Forever
Häftad, 2020
250 kr
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If a mere seven more MPs had voted with Prime Minister JBM Hertzog in favour of neutrality, South Africa’s history would have been quite different. Parliament’s narrow decision to go to war in 1939 led to a seismic upheaval throughout the 1940s: black people streamed in their thousands from rural …
Rhodes And His Banker
Empire, Wealth And The Coming Of Union
E-bok, 2024
180 kr
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Rhodes and his Banker is an account of the remarkable friendship between a larger-than-life historical figure and a modest, unassuming banker, both of whom were personally involved in all the major political and financial developments in Southern Africa during the closing decades of the 19th …
Milner
Last of the Empire Builders
Häftad, 2024
124 kr
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'Engagingly written, as unputdownable as a biography gets' Financial Mail'A rich and beautifully nuanced portrait of Milner ... a great feat, given all the paradoxical complexities of the man's life and character.' Duncan Campbell-Smith, former Financial Times and Economist journalistFrom the …
Jan Smuts: Unafraid of greatness
Häftad, 2015
229 kr
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Jan Christian Smuts was soldier, statesman and intellectual, one of South Africa's greatest leaders. Yet little is said about him today even as we appear to live in a leadership vacuum. This is a re-examination of the life and thought of Jan Smuts. It is intended to remind a contemporary readership …
Jan Smuts
Unafraid of Greatness
E-bok, 2015
148 kr
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Jan Smuts: Unafraid of Greatness is a re-examination of the life and thoughts of Jan Smuts. It is intended to remind a contemporary readership of the remarkable achievements of this impressive soldier-statesman. The author, a former editor of The Star, argues that Smut's role in the creation of …
Jan Smuts: Afrikaner sonder grense
Häftad, 2017
288 kr
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Jan Christiaan Smuts was 'n soldaat, staatsman, intellektueel en een van Suid-Afrika se grootste leiers. Tog word daar vandag min oor hom gepraat of geskryf, al beleef ons tans skynbaar 'n leierskapsvakuum. In Afrikaner sonder grense voer Richard Steyn aan dat ons hierdie indrukwekkende …
Louis Botha
A man apart
Häftad, 2018
266 kr
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In A Man Apart Richard Steyn once again brings to life a South African icon. Louis Botha was the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, a union he did much to create in the decade after the devastation of the Anglo-Boer War. During the war Botha was a brilliant young Boer general who …
