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Jan Smuts

2015-09-01 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2015-09-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Jan Smuts by : Richard Steyn

Download or read book Jan Smuts written by Richard Steyn. This book was released on 2015-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 modern South Africa should never be forgotten, not least because of his lifetime of devoted service to this country. The book draws a parallel between Smuts and President Thabo Mbeki, both architects of a new South Africa, much lionised abroad yet often distrusted at home. This highly readable account of Smut's eventful life blends fact, anecdote and opinion in an examination of his complex character, his relationships with women, spiritual and intellectual life and role as advisor to world leaders. Politics and international affairs receive the most attention, but Smut's unique contributions in a variety of other fields, including botany, conservation and philosophy, also receive attention. Jan Smuts: Unafraid of Greatness does not shy away from the contradictions of its subject. Smuts was one of the architects of the United Nations and a great champion of human rights, yet he could not come to terms with the need to include the African majority in the politics of his own country.

Jan Smuts

2017-01-12 History
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Release : 2017-01-12
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 532/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Jan Smuts by : F. S. Crafford

Download or read book Jan Smuts written by F. S. Crafford. This book was released on 2017-01-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A just biography of an important figure—political philosopher, soldier in three wars, scientist, statesman—Jan Smuts, who has played a long and decisive role in the formation and consolidation of South Africa. Masterful, energetic, intolerant, often highhanded, Smuts has never been a popular leader, but never once did he deviate from his conception of a united South Africa within the British Empire. Before his Premiership and after, he was to fight steadily against the opposition, the Nationalists, who demanded complete severance from Britain. Other problems of the Indians, of labor rebellion, of industrial unrest, objectively presented. During the First World War, his ruthless leadership in action in East Africa; his important part in world affairs as representative in the British War Cabinet; and later his plan for the League of Nations. He fell from power in 1924, as the anti-British Hertzog came in; he was recalled at 70 to head his country at war for the third time, which he has accomplished with equal severity and decisiveness. ‘Sound, factual biography...’ (Kirkus)

Jan Christian Smuts

1973 South Africa
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Release : 1973
Genre : South Africa
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Book Rating : 596/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Jan Christian Smuts by : Jan Christian Smuts

Download or read book Jan Christian Smuts written by Jan Christian Smuts. This book was released on 1973. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Holism and Evolution

1926 Health & Fitness
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Release : 1926
Genre : Health & Fitness
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Book Synopsis Holism and Evolution by : Jan Christiaan Smuts

Download or read book Holism and Evolution written by Jan Christiaan Smuts. This book was released on 1926. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Memoirs of the Boer War

1994 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 1994
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Book Synopsis Memoirs of the Boer War by : Jan Christiaan Smuts

Download or read book Memoirs of the Boer War written by Jan Christiaan Smuts. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the afternoon of Monday 4 June 1900, the young State Attorney of the South African Republic bade a sad farewell to his wife and child whom he was never to see again and left Pretoria to join the Boer commandos. He had braved shot and shell to put the government's sole source of finance for the continuing war - less than half a million pounds sterling in gold and coins - on a special train to President Kruger in the Eastern Transvaal. The next day, Lord Robert's army entered the capital. Jan Smuts came to play an important role in the South African war of 1899-1902. His memoirs are recorded here, and they present an account of the critical events from the fall of Pretoria to the reorganization of the commandos in December that year.

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