{"product_id":"9781868427994","title":"Churchill \u0026 Smuts - The Friendship","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe remarkable, and often touching, friendship between Winston Churchill and Jan Smuts is a rich study in contrasts.\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. Brought together first as enemies in the Anglo-Boer War, and later as allies in the First World War, the men forged a friendship which 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\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a fascinating account of two remarkable men in war and peace: one the leader of the Empire, the other the leader of a small fractious member of that Empire who nevertheless rose to global prominence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Richard+Steyn\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eRichard Steyn\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Richard Steyn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47375841820835,"sku":"9781868427994","price":320.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781868427994_b6da8cd4-a91e-4c52-88a3-e25b89147ddd.jpg?v=1776604336","url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/products\/9781868427994","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}