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Alfred Milner was one of Britain’s most famous empire builders who both contributed to the Allied victory in World War I and left an indelible imprint on the history of South Africa. Yet is legacy is contested and little understood. Largely responsible for the Boer War – a conflict marking the end of the British Empire – afterwards Milner helped to unify South Africa, but brewed resentment among Afrikaners. In Britain, from 1916 Milner was part of Lloyd George’s five-man War Cabinet, and the driving force behind the Imperial War Cabinet which increased the status of Britain’s Dominions. In this biography, Richard Steyn argues that Milner’s reputation should not be solely defined by his 8 years’ service in South Africa. If he was the wrong man to send to that country, he was the right person in a far greater international conflict.
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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 thrusting young aristocrat; Smuts, the aesthetic, philosophical Cape farm boy who would go on to Cambridge. Both were men of exceptional talents and achievements and, between them, the pair had to grapple with some of the 20th century’s most intractable issues, not least of which the task of restoring peace and prosperity to Europe after two of mankind’s bloodiest wars. Drawing on a maze of archival and secondary sources including letters, telegrams and the voluminous books written about both men, Richard Steyn presents a fascinating account of two remarkable men in war and peace.
