{"product_id":"churchill-smuts-the-friendship","title":"Churchill \u0026 Smuts The Friendship","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 Cape farm boy 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.\u003cbr\u003eBrought 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's death in 1950. Richard Steyn, author of Jan Smuts: Unafraid of Greatness, examines this close friendship through two world wars and the intervening years, drawing on a maze of archival and secondary sources, including letters, telegrams and the voluminous books written about both men.\u003cbr\u003eThis is a fascinating account of two exceptional men in war and peace: one the leader of an empire, the other the leader of a small fractious member of that empire who rose to global prominence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Ball Publishers SA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48370659066039,"sku":"9781868427994","price":199.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/0585\/8999\/files\/6321073482853_19240188-d46d-4174-8054-6333c1443956.jpg?v=1777537390","url":"https:\/\/bargain-books-3052.myshopify.com\/products\/churchill-smuts-the-friendship","provider":"Bargain Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}